Giovanna''s 86 Circles - And Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Paola Corso is the recipient of the 2000 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of a book of poems Death by Renaissance . A native of the Pittsburgh area, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches fiction in New York City. Klappentext In this mesmerizing fiction debut! Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town. Even a wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna's green thumb in the title story. Quirky and profound! Paola Corso's magical leaps reveal the poetry of these women's lives. Finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award Selected for "Best Short Stories of 2005" in "Montserrat Review" Best Books for Regional Special Interests! selected by the American Association of School Librarians! and Best Books for General Audiences! selected by the Public Library Association Zusammenfassung A fiction in which Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town.

Product details

• Authors: Paola Corso, University of Wisconsin Press
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2007
• EAN: 9780299212841
• ISBN: 978-0-299-21284-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Library of American Fiction; Library of American Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature