Description
"An Italian ROOTS." --The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
Author: Gay Talese
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 04/25/2006
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780812976069
ISBN10: 0812976061
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
Author: Gay Talese
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 04/25/2006
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780812976069
ISBN10: 0812976061
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
About the Author
Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965. Since then he has written for The New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other national publications. He is the author of 13 books. He lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City.