Like William Kennedy's Albany or Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Sal La Puma's Bensonhurst, Brroklyn, is full of passionately alive and wayward people. For two hot-blooded Sicilian brothers returning from WWII, it's a time, as the title says, for wedding cake--for whole-souled love and marriage. But within the bonds of family they are buffeted by tragedy, death, betrayal, madness, and accident.
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In this lusty but disappointing tale, La Puma returns to the working-class Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., that he mined in his acclaimed short story collection The Boys from Bensonhurst. Set in the years following WW II, it focuses on a hot-blooded Sicilian family, with a histrionic plot full of passion, sex, seething jealousy, vengeance and murder that is intermittently entertaining but never fully satisfies. Macho bricklayer Mario Leone has a tragic accident that touches every member of his family, especially younger brother Gene, the narrator, who teaches fifth grade. Gene, who keeps busy with four different women, will pose as a hospitalized mental patient to avoid one of them, giving this schmaltzy story some of its more macabre, effective moments. Mom and Pop Leone, forever at each other's throats, are props who serve to illustrate the author's thesis that Sicilians "punished their kids for the misery they felt in their marriages." Movie rights optioned by Goldwyn Studios.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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