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An American Life in Italy

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An edition of Mother tongue (1997)

Mother Tongue

An American Life in Italy

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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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North Point Press
Language
English
Pages
384

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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
2020, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
Mar 17, 2020, North Point Press
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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
2013, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
October 1, 2003, North Point Press
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Cover of: Mother tongue
Mother tongue: an American life in Italy
1997, North Point Press
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Mother tongue
Mother tongue: an American life in Italy
1997, North Point Press
in English - 1st ed.

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Paperback
Number of pages
384
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
Weight
15 ounces

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OL8317318M
ISBN 10
0865476705
ISBN 13
9780865476707
OCLC/WorldCat
59109798
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