In the Gathering Woods (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780822941316
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; American Short Story Collections; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Short Stories (single author)
Description: "This year's Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, In the Gathering Woods, contains a cast of characters with the same Italian ancestry, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator's boyhood recollections of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather - a narrator who seems still haunted by a terrifying local legend that tormented him as a boy.

We skip backward to a young shepherd-artist in the Apennine mountains in the 1500s, who yearns to be discovered, as Giotto was. Later, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a teenager struggles to learn Latin; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave."--BOOK JACKET.