An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Fiction

Page 10:  from Brondoli to Canzoneri

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Brondoli, Michael. Showdown and Other Stories. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.
[Brondoli explores the margins between traditional narrative and postmodern sensibilities in his first collection, the title story wo]n a 1980 Pushcart Prize.
 
Bryant, Dorothy Calvetti. Miss Giardino. Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1978.
[A retired school teacher is the victim of a crime that affects her memory. The solution to the crime comes through the story of her life as her memory is restored.]
 
---. A Day in San Francisco. Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1983.
[A mother and son plan a reunion that ends in a painful confrontation.]
 
---. The Test. Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1991.
[A daughter must help her 80 year old father appeal a failed driver’s license test, while balancing memories and tragedies of other members in her family.]
 
---. Anita, Anita. Berkeley, CA: Ata Books, 1993.
[Covering the years between 1835, when Garibaldi fled Italy for exile in South America, and 1849, when he returned to Italy, Bryant reconstructs the story of Garibaldi using biographies, Garibaldi's memoirs, histories and visits to the places where they lived and fought. Bryant tells a story of Anita Ribiero, de Duarte the love of Garibaldi's life.]
 
Buranelli, Prosper. You Gotta Be Rough. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930.
[A detective novel based on Italian-American characters.]
 
---. Big Nick. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1931.
[A detective novel dealing with life and death in the underworld.]
 
---. News Reel Murder. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.
[Pulp fiction which explores the connections between Wall Street and street gangsters.]
 
Bush, Mary. A Place of Light. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
[Of the dozen stories collected here, only a few deal with the representation of the Italian-American subject, yet they all speak from a knowledge that is sensitive to the lives of the people who, like many Americans of Italian descent, inhabit the margins of American society. ]
 
Calcagno, Anne. Pray for Yourself. Evanston, IL: Tri-Quarterly Books, 1993.
[Beneath the surface of the polished prose and carefully constructed sentences Calcagno has combined the beauty of poetry with the complexity of prose fiction, capturing the lyrical rhythms and sounds of the Italian language through English.]
 
Bylinsky, Tatyana. Before the Wildflowers Bloom. New York: Crown Publishing, 1989.
[A young adult novel set in a 1916 Colorado coal mining camp in which the daughter of an Italian immigrant family learns life and death American style.]
 
Calitri, Charles. Strike Heaven on the Face. New York; Crown Publishers, 1958.
[A hero whose life is based on strong principles struggles to overcome tyrannical forces.]
 
---. Father. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1962.
[A son learns that he must come to know his father before he can know himself.]
 
Canzoneri, Robert. Men with Little Hammers. New York: The Dial Press, 1969.
[An ironic and comic look at the hypocrisy inside the lives of students and teachers on a midwestern college campus.]
 
---. Barbed Wire and Other Stories. New York: The Dial Press, 1970.
[A collection of stories primarily set in the south in the 1940s -1960s focusing on the lives of Italian immigrants and their children.]

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