F.G. Paci : Essays on His Works
Edited by Joseph Pivato

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F.G. Paci: Essays on His Works
Writers Series 12, ISBN 1-55071-177-6
$12.00 Canadian-$10.00 USA
Editor Joseph Pivato
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"Frank Paci is Canada's invisible novelist. Since 1978 he has published eight novels but we hear or read little about him. In 1982 his Black Madonna was one of the first feminist novels to deal with ethnic minority women, and is still studied in university and college courses.

His first novel, The Italians became a Canadian bestseller by 1979 and was later translated into French as La famille Gaetano. He has a series of novels set in Toronto, but nobody in that city has heard of him. Even writing under the name F.G. Paci has helped him to maintain his anonymity. Is this the shyness of an immigrant child who feels awkward in the new country and has a sense of difference which will never allow him to fit into the new society? Or is it the negative capability of the artist who thinks of his vocation with religious austerity?"
-From the introduction by Joseph Pivato

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Frank Paci has been called one of the fathers of Italian Canadian writing.

His book The Italians, was the first English novel to deal with the experience of Italian immigrants in Canada.

Since 1978 Paci has chronicled this experience in powerful realistic narratives which have inspired other writers.

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About the Essays

The essays collected in this volume deal with some of Paci's eight novels and explore several literary themes, moral questions and philosophical preoccupations of this little know author.

Essays by Caterina Edwards, Roberta Sciff-Zamaro, Enoch Panofsky, Anna Carlevaris, Marino Tuzi, Gaetano Rando and Joseph Pivato.

A brief biography of F.G.Paci, and an interview in three parts by C.D. Minni and Joseph Pivato.

Guernica Titles by F.G. Paci include:
La famille Gaetano, F.G. Paci, Guernica Editions (1990), ISBN 2-89135-018-9
Italian Shoes, F.G. Paci, Guernica Editions (2002), ISBN 1-55071-170-9
Hard Edge, F.G. Paci, Guernica Editions (2004) Forthcoming

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