Fiction. "In this seminal work, Helen Barolini tells the story of Frances Molletone grappling with her ethnic heritage as she falls in love with a married man. The author takes us to post-WW2 Italy, a
One of the first novels to explore Italian American women's experience and an acknowledged contemporary classic of Italian American literature, Umbertina tells the richly detailed story of four genera
Fiction. "In her engrossing VISITS, Helen Barolini—the author of the classic "Umbertina" and editor of the equally classic Dream Book—once again explores the complexities of an Italian heritage and an
Fiction. "MORE ITALIAN HOURS is an elegant, intelligent and, finally, luminous book" - Carole Maso. These stories captured my attention from the beginning to the end. Barolini's tell
Our lives are Swiss,Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool.But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side.For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of ligh
Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of
In these essays, Barolini, a poet, novelist and critic, recounts her life as a writer, from her early life as an avid reader in Syracuse, New York, to her work as a young writer in Italy. Her journey
A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices. These fifteen pieces, tracking some thi
In her novels, stories, essays, and poetry, New York-based Barolini has written widely about Italy and Italian Americans. Here she profiles six other American women who have been smitten with the Medi
Essays gleaned over 25 years blend memoir and commentary on literature as a formative influence. This edition updates the 1997 introduction to the award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Antholo
A collection of 56 works by Italian American women writers, drawing on rare sources and archival material. Works encompass genres of prose, poetry, oral history, and fiction. An introductory essay exa
