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Taking it home : stories from the neighborhood
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Taking it home : stories from the neighborhood

Author: Tony Ardizzone
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.
Series: Sunsinger Books/Illinois short fiction.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Italian-American stories told mostly through the eyes of children. In Ritual, a father and son form a new relationship as the result of a fishing trip, The Eyes of the Children is on an altar boy, and Ladies' Choice is on the ritual of Sunday dances. The setting is Chicago in the 1950s and 60s.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tony Ardizzone
ISBN: 0252064836 9780252064838
OCLC Number: 32469414
Description: 155 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Baseball fever --
Nonna --
The eyes of children --
My mother's stories --
Ritual --
The language of the dead --
The man in the movie --
The daughter and the tradesman --
World without end --
Ladies ́choice --
Idling --
Holy cards.
Series Title: Sunsinger Books/Illinois short fiction.
Responsibility: Tony Ardizzone.

Abstract:

Italian-American stories told mostly through the eyes of children. In Ritual, a father and son form a new relationship as the result of a fishing trip, The Eyes of the Children is on an altar boy, and Ladies' Choice is on the ritual of Sunday dances. The setting is Chicago in the 1950s and 60s.

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