Catinaas Haircut: A Novel in Stories

by Paola Corso

Book Overview

Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Through an oral tradition embedded in the stone of memory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299248402
• ISBN13: 9780299248406
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"