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Life, Brazen and Garish : A Tale of Three Women.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maraini, Dacia.
- Series:
- Other Voices of Italy Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely bothers with punctuation. Mother Maria, a professional translator, writes detailed and observant letters yet doesn’t see what is happening right in front of her. And grandmother Gesuina, a former stage actress, speaks into an audio recorder, giving a provocative and brutally candid performance for an imagined audience that might never listen. Life, Brazen and Garish offers a fresh take on the epistolary novel, telling the story of a family through the fragmented and disparate perspectives of daughter, mother, and grandmother. Yet even as each woman endures her private struggles with love and betrayal, youth and maturity, knowledge and ignorance, reality and illusion, the Cascadeis forge a solidarity that transcends generations. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this novel is a triumph of narrative voice and literary style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers. Questo libro è stato tradotto grazie a un contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale italiano. This book has been translated thanks to a contribution from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword. The Power of Words: Three Women’s Quest for Meaning and Self-Discovery
- Translator’s Note
- Life, Brazen and Garish
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781978839755
- 1978839758
- 9781978839762
- 1978839766
- OCLC:
- 1422230818
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