Italian Stories

by Joseph Papaleo

Book Overview

Paying homage to the Italian-American experience, Italian Stories celebrates an Italian neighbourhood in the Bronx during the 1930s and '40s, and mourns the loss of this ethnic identity with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564783065
• ISBN13: 9781564783066
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

PURE DELIGHT!

Italian Stories is a must read for anyone with the experience or the curiousity of living with stereotypes. Papaleo has very eloquently presented the challenges and issues Italian-Americans have faced for so long. It is a pure delight to read these extraordinarily well written stories which leave you wanting more when you are finished. Let's hope there is more to follow from him!

Italian Stories

Joe Papaleo's voice is loud and clear. The struggling ethnic attempting to dispel the mafia image. At a time when the Soprano's has replaced the Godfather, the italo-americans need this reality. We are not all connected, spaghetti eating, greasy monkeys. Papaleo tells it like it is. He is articulate and breathes a breath of fresh air into the otherwise cigar smoking, garlic breath of the italo-american.