Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American LifeSyracuse University Press, 1 mar 1998 - 336 pagine Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione’s autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian community in Rochester is one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country. Family squabbles, soul-nourishing food, and the casting of evil eyes are only some of the ingredients of this richly textured book, although they must all take second place to its unforgettable characters. As Eugene Paul Nassar writes in the book’s Foreword, “Mount Allegro . . . gave a literary visibility and identity, amiable and appealing, to a poorly understood ethnic group in America, and did so at a very high level of artistry.” |
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ONE When I Grow Up | 1 |
THREE Mr Michelangelos Spite Wall | 38 |
FOUR Talking American | 49 |
FIVE God and the Sicilians | 67 |
SEVEN The Unholy Three | 117 |
NINE A Man and His Vice | 166 |
TEN Uncle Nino and the Underworld | 181 |
ELEVEN American Pattern | 207 |
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