More Italian Hours & Other Stories (Via Folios) [Paperback]

Helen Barolini (Author)

Book Description

Series: Via Folios | Publication Date: January 1, 2001

Fiction. "MORE ITALIAN HOURS is an elegant, intelligent and, finally, luminous book" - Carole Maso. These stories captured my attention from the beginning to the end. Barolini's telling details create the characters so vividly that I felt I could almost touch them...Italy too is alive in these stories as the characters inhabiting it" - Nahid Rachlin, author of Foreigner. "Helen Barolini emerges...as both a serious literary artist and a spokesperson with a feisty feminist conscience for Italian American social and literary issues" - Rita Signorelli-Pappas, Women's Review of Books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 175 pages
• Publisher: Bordighera Press (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884419488
• ISBN-13: 978-1884419485
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,900,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle grace, August 26, 2001

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Frank Gado (White River Junction, VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Italian Hours & Other Stories (Via Folios) (Paperback)

Helen Barolini warrants more attention. Her essays are wonderful excursion, and her best novel, Umbertina, offers the most compelling portrayal of an Italian immigrant yet produced by an American writer. Now we have a collection of short stories, very much in the vein of Henry James (hence the appropriate, if unexciting, title). Enjoy a respite from writers striving to win attention by flogging the latest -ism. Barolini's writing has a subtle grace that rewards the act of reading. Enter these well-crafted precincts of fiction for the pleasure of following the sine of language in the service of depicting various lives.