Title: In the gathering woods /
Authors: Bernardi, Adria, 1957-
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Italians in literature.; Italian Americans in literature.; Short stories, American.
Abstract: Stories by Italian descendants include a boy gathering mushrooms with his grandfather and being tormented by a local legend, an artist in the Apennine Mountains in the 1500s yearning to be discovered, and a girl in 1960s Illinois learning Latin in Catholic school.
Contents: In the gathering woods -- Waiting for Giotto -- The child carrier -- The coal loader, above ground -- Shoreline -- Sunday -- Rustlings -- Straight shot -- A slight blow to the cheek -- Working the clock -- The Minnie Minoso cure -- With these new tunes -- Noli me tangere -- Shards.