Blue Italian

by Rita Ciresi

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Skillfully capturing the daily quirks of life in a boisterous, working-class ethnic family--daily assaulted by family clamor, endless courses of food, embarrassment and fierce love--Blue Italian traces the pitfalls of the young life and three-year marriage of a wise-cracking and heart-winning heroine, Rosa Salvatore. With an ear for acid dialogue and an eye for everyday ironies, Ciresi unfolds Rosa Salvatore's tale: growing up on fantasies, guilt, and fagioli in the New Haven working-class show more Italian neighborhood of Pizza Beach; working her way through a local college by slinging hash, while agonizing over her thighs and aching for passion; landing a job and meeting Gary Fisher, a nice Jewish lawyer from Flushing with a great butt and angst of his own. Rosa and Gary fall in love, make love, get married, fight, make up, fight again--until Gary is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Rosa realizes the power of her love--and the crushing force of regret. Frank and warm, crackling with razor-sharp wit, Blue Italian is a love story about an ill-fated couple who almost missed realizing how much they loved each other. It establishes Rita Ciresi as a writer with a unique gift for language, character, and emotion--a novelist to read, and a novelist to watch. show less

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Die unscheinbare Rosa Salvatore hat endlich ihren Mann fürs Leben gefunden: den gutaussehenden, reichen Gary. Doch nach einer Fehlgeburt und Garys Rückzug glaubt Rosa, daß ihre Ehe zerbrochen ist. Dann erfährt sie die Wahrheit: Gary hat Krebs und nur noch wenige Monate zu leben. Feinfühlig und humorvoll zugleich beschreibt Rita Ciresi die Odyssee eines ungleichen Liebespaares - vom ersten Rendezvous bis zum letzten Kuß.Rita Ciresi ist Preisträgerin des renommierten Flannery O'Conner-Literaturpreises, und ihr Roman "Ein Mann für Lisa" gewann bereits vor der Veröffentlichung den Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Wesley Chapel, Florida.

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Rita Ciresi is the author of "Mother Rocket," which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, & the novels "Pink Slip" & "Blue Italian." She lives with her husband & daughter in Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) Rita Ciresi is the author of the novels "Pink Slip" and "Blue Italian" and the collection "Mother Rocket", winner of the show more Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, she teaches creative writing at the University of South Florida at Tampa. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3553 .I7 .B57Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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