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Cargando... The Islands of Divine Music by (edición 2008)por John Addiego
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Way better than I expected. I am not at all sure what the title of the book or the cover art has to do with the story and that is what really turned me off for a long time. I love the characters and the story was interesting, though the jump around and the stories all seemed somewhat independant made it a little hard for me to keep everyone straight and remember the important details for something further on in the story. But, overall, the book was good, interesting, and kept me involved. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This was an uncorrected proof so reading it could be quite tedious especially when so of the pages were printed so lightly, I could barely make out the words. But nevertheless, it was a good read. The story begins with Rosari, the family matriarch, her family and descendents from their beginnings in a small Italian village to Ellis Island ad finally to San Francisco. The multiple points of view would seem confusing but it works here. The story of Rosari, her family, her husband, children and grandchildren is heartbreaking, frustration and comical. Everyone could relate because there is one person like that in every family. The book left me with a smile on my face when I finished Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. The Islands of Divine Magic works best as a collection of short stories. It's easy to pick up and delve into one and then walk away from the book for a while. I found myself enjoyng the characters and John Addiego's world when I did pick it up. Unfortunately, it was also easy to forget to return to it. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I wasn't able to finish this book. It was well-written, but the format of connected short stories just didn't work for me. I couldn't connect with the characters. I gave it almost 100 pages, but then set it aside and never found the desire to pick it up and finish it.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. The trouble with a book about multiple generations is often that you lose track of people and characters aren't quite fleshed out. The Islands of Divine Music doesn't escape this flaw. It is, however, full of beautiful prose and the story is interesting.sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Islands of Divine Music is a novel of five generations of an Italian-American family finding its place in the New World. Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, five generations of the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco as each character brushes up against some aspect of the divine. The family matriarch is Rosari, a little girl whose family flees Italy because her prodigality is exploited by illiterate kidnappers. After her beautiful, psychotic mother's suicide, the girl and her despondent father come to San Francisco, where she meets the man she'll marry, a handsome, fiercely strong peasant named Giuseppe Verbicaro. The twelve linked stories of The Islands of Divine Music are portraits of family members whose lives are interwoven in one narrative that spans100 years. Rosari and Giuseppe's oldest son, Narciso, a handsome and dim-witted dandy, barely evades death and the stain of organized crime by his simple-minded innocence and luck, while his passionate brother Ludovico, a talented third baseman in the old San Francisco minor leagues, falls prey to the illicit dreams of a wise guy from the Gambino family. His scheme to smuggle Cuban cigars to the San Francisco Bay nearly ends in drowning but leads to a kind of salvation. Their youngest brother, Joe, a brilliant child and shrewd businessman, is ashamed of his ethnicity and, in particular, his father. This is due in part to the fact that Giuseppe, wandering North Beach, believes that God directs him to marry a teen-aged, pregnant Mexican prostitute named Maria. Further senility, faith, or vermouth convinces the old man that Maria's child, Jesus, is the product of an immaculate conception. The event is both a family disgrace and a bizarre blessing. The child's life and tragic death come to have a profound effect on Giuseppe's progeny, particularly Joe's children: Penelope, who flees the country following involvement in deadly anti-Vietnam War activities, and her brothers Paulie and Angelo, who are inspired by the young Jesus to embark upon a quest of several thousand miles to recover the family's lost and most prized spiritual treasures. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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