Sacred time / Ursula Hegi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hegi, Ursula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian American families--Fiction.

Italian American families.

Conflict of generations--Fiction.

Conflict of generations.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

244 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2003]

Summary:

The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet-the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family.

In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium-and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. Malcolm is in jail for stealing-once again-from his latest new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth-floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Time spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family-and its gracefulness-Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Ultimately she reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations. With gravity and poise, Hegi turns her astute yet forgiving eye on the essential frailty and dignity of the human condition in this elegant and fast-paced novel.

Contents:

Anthony 1953: Elsewhere 3

Leonora 1955: Annulments 53

Floria 1975: At the Proper Hour 105

Belinda 1979: Ordinary Sins 137

Floria 2001: The Weight of All That Was Never Brought Forward 181

Anthony 2002: Acts of Violence 213.

Notes:

"A Touchstone book."

ISBN:

0743255984

0743255992

OCLC:

53045121