Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night: A Memoir [Paperback]

Anthony Valerio (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

Cultural Writing. Biography and memoir. With this book, author and book editor Anthony Valerio offers a memoir of his close relationship with noted writer, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Toni Cade Bambara. Afaa Michael Weaver writes: "The substance of this memoir is what makes us human when we come home from struggling with the world. Valerio gives us home as the heart within the heart, the place that is both vulnerable and free. Moreover, it is the place that is true." Valerio's other books include: VALENTINO AND THE GREAT ITALIANS; CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY (now titled Lefty and the Button Men); BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti; Anita Garibaldi, a Biography.

Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Bordighera Press (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884419844
• ISBN-13: 978-1884419843
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,987,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Unforgettable Night, December 20, 2007

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Rebecca West (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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A tender, funny, ironic, and revealing book, about unexpected encounters, emotions that can take us unaware, and how dislocations from our usual surroundings to unknown places and people can teach us about our lives. Valerio writes with a light and deft touch, but what he recounts is heart-felt and very real. Read this little book, and you will want to read other books by this Italian American writer, whose interests range from Garibaldi's wife Anita, to the great ex-President of Yale and Baseball Commissioner, the late Bart Giamatti, to quirky corners of Italian Americana.

5.0 out of 5 stars Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night, November 7, 2007

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G. Guida (Cohocton, New York) - See all my reviews
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Anthony Valerio is in top form in this moving, funny non-fiction novella about the improbable relationship between two middle-aged writers, one Italian American, one African American, both memorable characters whose romance is one for the ages. Valerio has a gift for insight into human emotion. He taps into his characters marrow, their history, aspirations, frustrations, and hopes, as if they were (and here they sometimes are) his own.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Conception of a Great Love, August 12, 2007

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amba "amba12" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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The process by which a great love begins is as hidden as the birth of the universe or the conception of a human being. Here Anthony Valerio, who has lived it, allows us to see it without violating its mystery. This is his story of the improbable but profound recognition that ignited between him -- an "Olive" man, Italian-American writer -- and the acclaimed, doomed Black novelist and activist Toni Cade Bambara. It is so delicate, touching, suspenseful -- I hardly breathed the whole time.