From Library Journal
The author of Confessions of Madame Psyche (Ata Bks., 1986) here recounts the romance between Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi and Ana (Anita) Riberio de Duarte, who bore him four children. Garibaldi's rather florid first-person memories alternate with brisker, somewhat more engaging third-person accounts of Anita's perceptions. She is a rebel in her own right, dissatisfied with women's circumscribed lot in her small, 19th-century Brazilian community; she loves the exiled Garibaldi almost at first sight, becoming his fellow freedom-fighter in South America and eventually joining him in Italy. But their relationship is damaged by his unfaithfulness, her rough manners, the scorn of socially conventional associates, and Europeans' patronizing attitudes toward Americans. Though Bryant's characters never come wholly alive, bits of folklore, telling particulars of everyday life, and colorful geographical details enrich her vivid setting. For large collections.
- Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
