Mother tongue
an American life in Italy
1st ed.
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Publication
1997 - North Point Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
93,250 words, Guess
Page Count
373 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1001941M
- ISBN-100865475016
- OCLC Control Number35620296
- OCLC Control Numbermothertongueamer00wild
- Library of Congress Control Number96041229
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- Goodreads2850790
- LibraryThing691653
Classifications
- DDC945/.4400413
- LCCDG975.P25 W55 1997
Description
Fourteen years ago, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved with her husband and daughter to Parma, a prosperous city in northern Italy. Searching for a way to find a place within a city that has existed since Roman times, she conducted a highly personal investigation of the often baffling, closed way of life she encountered. Mother Tongue explores Parma, largely through the lives of its women, some historical figures - Giuseppe Verdi, Correggio, the Renaissance badessa Giovanna Piacenza - and other extraordinary individuals. It is also a remarkable, probing evocation of an American life that has been tried and tempered by two very different societies. No other book evokes so poignantly and profoundly the role of food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life and, by reflection, in our own.
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