Only Sons by Fred Misurella

Only Sons by Fred Misurella

Fiction. ONLY SONS begins at an Italian-American wedding in the 1960s and reaches into the new millennium through the story of two families, the Salvaggis and Maresciallos, living near each other in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. Sonny Salvaggi, child of a strong, unwed mother, moves from careful, prudent marriage to philandering in his forties, to being a Quixotic, aesthetic older man hopelessly in love with Margo, a woman less than half his age whose intelligence, strength, and beauty move him in surprising, poetic ways. Jack Maresciallo, Margo's lover and father to her son, Marcello, is a talented, but unlucky artist who, after a bad period of drink and drugs in Paris and New York, straightens out and works for Sonny as director of a health and fitness club. Finally, Marcello, after a difficult youth, grows up a scholar of Italian-Americana who seeks to record and understand the story of the two families--a story that includes the immigration of Carmine, founder of the Maresciallos, enmity between Sonny and Anthony (Carmine's son, Jack's father), and a snow storm and explosion that levels a mountain and a quarry, the source of the two families' success.

Fred Misurella tells the complex, and sometimes secret truth about what it is to be alive in these complicated times. Misurella writes in the clearest, precise prose, an has as his special strength the joining of shining intelligence with deep emotion.--Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

Fred Misurella has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of magazines, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, The Partisan Review, Salmagundi, VIA, Altre Italie, and L'Atelier du Roman. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a lover of newspapers, books, movies, and most things French or Italian (particularly novels and opera). He attended the University of Iowa, lived in New York and Paris, and now lives with his wife, Kim, and son, Alex, in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. He teaches creative writing, journalism, and Italian-American literature at East Stroudsburg University, and he and his family spend practically every summer in Provence, Liguria, and Tuscany. The novel ONLY SONS, the story collection LIES TO LIVE BY, and the novella SHORT TIME are among his works.

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ISBN 13	9781599540429
ISBN 10	1599540428
Title	Only Sons
Author	Fred Misurella
Series	Via Folios
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bordighera Press
Year published	2012-06-01
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.