The Music of the Inferno

by Frank Lentricchia

Book Overview

At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro, an orphan of ambiguous racial and ethnic identity, disappears from his hometown of Utica, New York. At sixty he returns, forgotten by nearly everyone and searching the bin of memory for something to salvage. Having lived for decades inside a bookstore, his search for identity has taken him into the world of great literature and the history of Utica itself, and so his quest must be to create a memory, a history, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791443477
• ISBN13: 9780791443477
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"