Italy in Mind: An AnthologyAlice Leccese Powers Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result is a work of enchantment, a tribute both to Italy and to generations of literary travelers. |
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... woman wearing a brown tweed skirt she had got from an English family that had once lived in the building , said she would remember the maid but then she for- got ; she forgot until an American professor moved into a fur- nished ...
... woman wearing a brown tweed skirt she had got from an English family that had once lived in the building , said she would remember the maid but then she for- got ; she forgot until an American professor moved into a fur- nished ...
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... woman with a name similar to Manuela's had been admit- ted to the hospital . She had been bitten by a tiger mosquito ... woman's bedside , debating whether or not this was Manuela ( who , at the time , was having gelato with us in the ...
... woman with a name similar to Manuela's had been admit- ted to the hospital . She had been bitten by a tiger mosquito ... woman's bedside , debating whether or not this was Manuela ( who , at the time , was having gelato with us in the ...
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... woman's white skirt swung among the empty coathangers . None of the drawers was locked ; all of them were empty . Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photo- graph , although now there ...
... woman's white skirt swung among the empty coathangers . None of the drawers was locked ; all of them were empty . Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photo- graph , although now there ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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