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Renato!

Eugene Mirabelli

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Renato! is the sweeping "autobiography" of Renato Stillamare, a talented yet struggling artist in Boston. It was written across three decades and its parts were released in three volumes before its revision and assembly into this single masterwork. Renato! is a marriage of story-telling forms, and is imbued with matters of love, sex, food, philosophy, religion, and the intricacies of family attachments. The larger canvas stretches from 1860 to the present, and from Sicily to Massachusetts. In his introduction, novelist and critic Douglas Glover remarks "Mirabelli has reinvented the peculiarly Italian, extravagantly melodramatic and often comic visionƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"the operaƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"in the novel form."

Book Details

  • Publisher: McPherson
  • Publish Date: Oct 23rd, 2020
  • Pages: 592
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.30in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9781620540428
  • Categories: LiteraryCultural Heritage

About the Author

Mirabelli, Eugene: - Eugene Mirabelli was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, and began writing and publishing while in college.Six of his nine novels (including those formingRenato!) create a mosaic about an Italian American family that stretches from nineteenth-century Sicily to modern day Boston.

He has received numerous awards, including a Rockefeller grant, and hismany short stories, journalistic pieces, reviews and essays appear widely in magazines and anthologies,and are translated into Czech, French, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Sicilian. Occasionally he writes brief pieces on the arts, sciences, politics, economics at CriticalPages.com, More about his books is found atgenemirabelli.com

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