Italy Revisited: Conversations with my mother : Conversations with My Mother Paperback / softback
by Mary Melfi
Part of the Prose series series
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Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing.
Italy Revisited serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter.
The conversation takes the reader to a medieval town high up in the mountains where time is told by the shadow the sun casts, where wheat and olive oil are the currency of choice (barter is in use), and where marriage is as much about property as it is about love.
As they re-create that vanished world, the pair finds greater understanding of the tumultuous relationships that sometimes exist between immigrant mothers and their children.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:326 pages
- Publisher:Guernica Editions,Canada
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
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- ISBN:9781550712865
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:326 pages
- Publisher:Guernica Editions,Canada
- Publication Date:30/07/2009
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- ISBN:9781550712865
