Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American LifeColumbia University Press, 1981 - 309 pagine Depicts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century as their customs blend and clash with those of their adopted country. |
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ONE When I Grow Up | 1 |
THREE Mr Michelangelos Spite Wall | 38 |
FOUR Talking American | 49 |
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