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In a glass house

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PR9199.3.R512 I6 1995	Off-site

Description

275 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Nino Ricci's first novel, The Book of Saints, was accorded high critical acclaim and popular success for its haunting portrayal of a young Italian boy's view of his mother's fall from grace.
This second novel follows Ricci's young hero, Vittorio Innocente, from Italy to the New World, and from the arms of his mother into the uncomfortable haven of a family he hardly knows and a country whose every feature feels alien to him. Living under the watch of his troubled father, a greenhouse-keeper, Victor and his younger half-sister, Rita, come of age in a farming community whose ways are both magical and mysteriously forbidding.
Ricci is a writer gifted with the ability to summon memorable images and characters: the delicate paradise of a greenhouse, the loneliness of a man who cannot voice his feelings, and the slow flowering of a young man's intelligence from the soil of his family into a larger world.

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Genre/Form

Domestic fiction.

ISBN

0312135203

LCCN

95021020

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries