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Taking an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing, this work serves as a double memoir, told...
Johnny and Carla DiGiacomo are the hub of a big, extended conventional Italian American family....
Recruits in a boot camp go through tough training exercises to become an elite cadre...
Summer of the Dancing Bear is a historical novel about the "rite of passage"of 14-year-old...
The pioneering American gangsters: perpetually appealing, forever misunderstood. Who were they and what were they...
This book moves with compelling energy from the forests of north-western Ontario to the capitals...
To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with the relationship between Umber, a professor of comparative literature, and a Dr. Jamshid Kloster, an experimental physicist whom Umber meets on a Laguna Beach bench as Diane Keaton, a long-time Laguna Beach resident, strolls by. Apparently, Conte wasn't as oblivious to his Laguna Beach surroundings as I thought he was. Umber's other obsession or, perhaps, his deepest regret is that as time goes by he will never be able to know any of “the characters of future novels.” In Hitchcockian terms, that's the McGuffin and as Kloster tells...
"Umber posed no limits on himself. Between Frollo and Quasimodo, Phoebus and Gringoire, he allowed himself to be seduced by Esméralda, the fatally beautiful gypsy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He wandered through the woods of the Friuli and the quays of Venice with la Pisana of Confessions of... "
