Astoria
Edition: Picas Series edition
Series: Picas Series
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc.
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781550711004
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Historical - General; Fiction - General; Fiction; Immigrants; Italian Americans; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical; General
First sentence: I have to my account forty-five years, quite enough, as it turns out, to look backwards and see not one or two but a dozen worlds, the closest to my sense of the damp being the one furthest away in time, most deeply buried under the avalanche of wet newspapers that ordinary conversation signifies with the name of history.