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  • Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women

    Life, Brazen and Garish by Maraini, Dacia; Di Fabio, Elvira G.;

    A Tale of Three Women

    Series: Other Voices of Italy;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Rutgers University Press
    • Date of Publication 12 April 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781978839731
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages162 pages
    • Size 203x127x15 mm
    • Weight 141 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 0 images
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    Long description:

    Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely bothers with punctuation. Mother Maria, a professional translator, writes detailed and observant letters yet doesn’t see what is happening right in front of her. And grandmother Gesuina, a former stage actress, speaks into an audio recorder, giving a provocative and brutally candid performance for an imagined audience that might never listen.

    Life, Brazen and Garish offers a fresh take on the epistolary novel, telling the story of a family through the fragmented and disparate perspectives of daughter, mother, and grandmother. Yet even as each woman endures her private struggles with love and betrayal, youth and maturity, knowledge and ignorance, reality and illusion, the Cascadeis forge a solidarity that transcends generations. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this novel is a triumph of narrative voice and literary style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers.

    Questo libro È stato tradotto grazie a un contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale italiano.
    This book has been translated thanks to a contribution from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword: The Power of Words, Sara Teardo
    Translator's Note, Elvira Di Fabio

    Life, Brazen and Garish

    Notes on Contributors

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