An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Fiction

Page 11:  from Caponegro to Cuomo

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Caponegro, Mary. The Star Cafe. (1990). New York: Norton, 1991.
[In the tradition of Don DeLillo and Gilbert Sorrentino, Caponegro's writing, while not specifically about Italian-American life, captures its essence in her parabolic stories which earned her the Rome Prize.]
 
Caputo, Philip. Delcorso's Gallery. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.
[A photojournalist who uses his camera to make war on war. From the end of the Viet Nam War to Beirut, Caputo dramatizes the world of photojournalists.]
 
Carmello, Charles. La Mattanza: the Sicilian Madness. New York: Freundlich Books, 1986.
[A novel based on the mafia drug wars of the 1980s known as the Pizza Connection.]
 
Caruso, Joseph. The Priest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956.
[When the Irish leave the neighborhood, the Sicilians and Neapolitans take over and transplant their old-world traditions in new world soil.]
 
Carillo, Charles. Shepherd Avenue. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
[A stirring and humorous story of a young boy's search for identity during a summer in Brooklyn, after a childhood on Long Island.]
 
Cautela, Giuseppe. Moon Harvest. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, Inc. 1925.
[The story of Romualdo and his wife who come to American steeped in old Italian traditions and must assimilate or separate.]
 
Cavallo, Diana. A Bridge of Leaves. New York: Atheneum, 1961.
[The coming-of age story of a young man growing up in an Italian-American family in the 1940s.]
 
Cenedella, Robert. A Little to the East. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963.
[An Italian-American lawyer takes on a wife-murderer as a client and in the process learns more about his humanity and his American life.]
 
Ciabattari, Mark. Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1990.
[A romp through the mind of Rizzoli, a New York Everyman of 1990s postmodernism.]
Ciresi, Rita. Mother Rocket. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
[Not directly connected to Italian-American culture, these stories represent the advanced assimilation of the Italian-American writer whose efforts earned her a 1993 Flannery O'Connor award.]
 
Compo, Susan. Life After Death and Other Stories. Winchester, MA: Faber and Faber, 1990.
[Life, rock and roll and some Italians in a variety of styles of stories.]
 
Corsel, Ralph. Up There the Stars. New York: Citadel Press, 1968.
[A street kid grows up during the Depression era admiring gangsters and ends up running away to become somebody.]
 
Creatore, Luigi. This World Is Mine. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1942.
[A sailor suffering from amnesia during World War II must gain his identity by struggling within himself and the hospital ward.]
 
Cuomo, George. Jack Be Nimble. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1963.
[A comic look at college football.]
 
---. Bright Day, Dark Runner. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1964.
[A picaresque story of a wandering chef whose past oozes out of him as he works to create art.]
 
---. Among Thieves. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1968.
[A novel of the crime and punishment that builds prison lives.]

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