First trade paperback printing

 

Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover. Softcover.

 

Publishing Info: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa CA, 1985

ISBN: 9780876855829

 

Wryly comic, intensely evocative, often deeply moving, most of these stories explore the growing up of young Italian Americans in the state of Colorado.

We meet larger-than-life adults and follow their actions through their children's uncomprehending eyes; we grapple with the Catholic view of sin, confession and absolution; we share the joys, the upsets, the embarrassments of childhood in a Midwestern immigrant community.

 

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