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More Italian Hours & Other Stories
By Helen Barolini (Via Folios 27 2001, ISBN 1-884419-46-1158 pp $16)
"More Italian Hours is an elegant, intelligent and, finally, luminous book," reports Carole Maso.
Frank Gado remarks: "Helen Barolini's title nods toward Henry James's book of
Italian observations as well as toward James himself. It is an appropriate homage; not only because Italy is the stories' backdrop - a variegated tapestry Barolini knows and understands . . . - but also because her approach to her subjects often suggests The Master's tracking of shifting perceptions. Barolini shows a sure hand in guiding the reader along the sine of her characters' consciousness. This gathering of fiction will demonstrate why she is among the most rewarding American writers of her generation.
"Nahid Rachlin, author of Foreigner, a novel, states that "[t]hese stories captured my attention from the beginning to the end. Barolini's telling details create the characters so vividly that I felt I could almost touch them. They seemed like people I have known; but now I have been given more insight into them. Italy too is as alive in these stories as the characters inhabiting it."
Helen Barolini is the author of seven books and over fifty stories and essays that have appeared in literary reviews, anthologies, and collections. She has been cited in the series Best American Essays for 1991, 1993, and 1999 and her piece "How I Learned to Speak Italian" appeared in Best American Essays 1998. Her Umbertina (Feminist Press, 1999) and Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) will be published in Italy in 2001. With The Dream Book recently re-issued by Syracuse University Press, all of Helen Barolini's books are now in print.
More Italian Hours" available from Bordighera Press via 1990@aol.com;
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Distribution (www.spdbooks.org; they accept credit cards).
Bordighera Inc www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang/italian/bordighera

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