An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Fiction

Page 15:  from Gambone to Lamacchia

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Gambone, Philip.The Language We Use up Here and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
[A superb collection of stories about the families, friends and lovers of men who happen to be gay and in many cases, Italian American, especially in "Enrollment."]
 
Gangemi, Kenneth. Olt. Salem, NH : Marion Boyars, 1969.
[A very unconventional novel in which the protagonist is obsessed with facts.]
 
---. The Volcanoes from Puebla. Salem, NH: Marion Boyars, 1979.
[Shattering the conventions of travel writing, this novel depends on writing and not plot. All of Gangemi’s novels challenge as they extend traditional ways of sensing and telling stories.]
 
---. The Interceptor Pilot. Salem, NH: Marion Boyars, 1980.
[A haunting bare bones Viet Nam War story in the form of a film treatment.]
 
Giardina, Anthony. Men with Debts, New York: Knopf, 1984.
[Giardina’s first novel , after a number of plays, with an Italian-American focus.]
 
---. A Boy’s Pretensions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
[A family tragedy forces a young man back to his family after he had escaped to college.]
 
Giardina, Denise. Storming Heaven. New York: Norton, 1987.
[Rosa Angelelli has lost four sons to mining accidents in a small coal mining town in this historical recreation of the struggles of America's West Virginian coal miners.]
 
Gioseffi, Daniela. The Great American Belly Dance. New York: Doubleday, 1977.
[A woman dances her way through America in search of love, peace and feminism.]
 
Grieco, Rose. the queen of mulberry street. Great Neck, NY: Todd and Honeywell, Inc., 1989.
[Through sixteen sketches, Grieco follows Zi' Beppe as she makes her Italian ways work in a strange American world in which other Italians are all too ready to forget rituals and ceremonies that are centuries old.]
 
Harding, William Harry. Young Hart. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.
[Italian immigrant grandparents hold the world together for a young man who comes-of-age during the 1950s and 60s.]
 
Hendin, Josephine Gattuso. The Right Thing to Do. Boston: David Godine, 1988.
[The novel vividly presents generational conflicts through rare look at the old world-new world crisis in light of a father and. daughter relationship.]
 
Hunter, Evan. Streets of Gold. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
[A novel of life and death in Italian America ala New York during the 1930s on, by the author of the blackboard jungle who changed his Italian name.]
 
Iannuzzi, John Nicholas. Part 35. New York: Richard W. Baron Publishing, 1970.
[An Italian-American lawyer defends two Puerto Rican drug addicts accused of killing a cop.]
 
---. Sicilian Defense. New York: Richard W. Baron Publishing, 1972.
[A crime novel featuring an Italian-American lawyer.]
 
Lamacchia, Grace. A. Collision. Newark, NJ: Washington Irving Publishing Co., 1974.
[The clash between the old ways and the new define what it is to be a young Italian-American woman in many of the stories]

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