Research Catalog
Blue Italian
- Title
- Blue Italian / Rita Ciresi.
- Author
- Ciresi, Rita.
- Publication
- Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.I7 M34 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 287 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Rosa Salvatore is a nice Italian girl who lusts after beautiful shoes, junk food, and the one sensitive man with whom she can share the sad story of her life. Gary Fisher, a nice Jewish boy studying law at Yale, has a big mouth, a great butt, and more than enough angst of his own. In him Rosa thought she caught a momentary glimpse of something that would help her understand the world - surpass it, even.
- But the not-so-nice illness that comes between them threatens to destroy their shaky faith in each other, not to mention their faith in God and the universe. Rosa loves Gary like a big war. When the guns fall silent, what will be left?
- Perfectly capturing life's everyday ironies and the small moments of recognition that loom large in hindsight, Blue Italian traces Rosa's courtship and brief marriage to a man who gets on her nerves the first day she sets eyes on him.
- We are drawn into the separate worlds of their childhoods: Pizza Beach, the working-class Italian neighborhood where women hang their tattered dishrags on the line like so many flags of surrender; where Rosa's father keeps a photo of Mussolini tacked up in the garage and Rosa's mother goes to church so often she might as well sleep there.
- We visit the affluent bedroom communities of Long Island, where the Lincoln Town Car rules the expressway and Gary's socially ambitious mother Mimi gets her face lifted on a seasonal basis, and finally we get a peek at Artie Fisher, whose complete adoration of his son proves the power - despite its limitations - of human love.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Medical novels.
- ISBN
- 0880015152
- LCCN
- 96010176
- OCLC
- ocm34282906
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries