Household Saints: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1480445436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kilian85710 said Transparent. I've heard the phrase 'limpid prose,' but until I read this book by the aptly-named writer, I really didn't know what it meant. Now I think I understand. Absolutely nothing gets in the way between the reader and the story. No distractions of awkward wording, no jarring images to pull the reader out of the book, no awareness of how clever the writer is. Just pure, instant transfer of story from writer to reader. I lost awareness that I was reading a book. I was living inside the story. I knew the basics from seeing the wonderful movie adaptation with Vincent D'onofrio and Tracy Ullman, so I knew I would like it. When the book tu. "Wonderful, deeply imaginative work" according to Melinda A. Khan. Witty, charming, eccetric, and delicious reading. I enjoyed the story that took me into a different culture and I learned details I was never aware of. This story also gave me a taste of the strange and spiritual. I truly became involved with the characters and sympathic to there feelings and experiences. I really enjoyed this unusual sort of story that had the simple and its complexities joined together as one does in relationships as well as the element of unpredictability of life.. HOUSEHOLD SAINTS WAS A WONDERFUL SURPRISE NY HOUSEHOLD SAINTS certainly was a surprise read for me. It was a book that is not the norm in what I select to read, but I decided that I made a great choice in this selection. I literally did not want to put it down, but did not want it to end either.Having experience with some of the old world types like the mother in the tale, made it even more of a delight to read. Insight to differences I generations of Italians was well done. What I found particularly engaging was that when the book could have come to an end, the story will continue in time and be part of the next generation in the main family. I found the changes in the b
“A marvelous, lovable novel.” —Joyce Maynard
At the end of a long, sweaty, boozy evening, his friend Lino Falconetti, addled by wine and heat, bets the hand of his daughter, Catherine—and Santangelo wins.Santangelo’s modern new wife clashes immediately with his superstitious, half-mad mother—and Catherine is horrified when the daughter they raise turns out to have more in common with the old world than the new. As the years slide past, the city changes around them, but Little Italy’s household saints hold their world together.. It happened by the grace of God that Joseph Santangelo won his wife in a card game.On a September night so hot that the good Catholics of New York wonder if their city has slipped into hell, the butcher Joseph Santangelo invites his friend