3 Ergebnisse.

A veritable carousel of emotions, thoughts, and impulses" -Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate

A blend of words and images, this work tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one Italian-American family. Drawing on a collection of raw material - fragments of family letters, stories, diaries, as well as photographs, this book fashions an encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined.

Lavishly illustrated in full color, the book is based on Amore's multimedia exhibition Lifeline: filo della vita, which traveled with great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout are numerous interviews?in both English and Italian, as are many other documents?and historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives. Also included are original essays by Pellegrino D?Acierno, Fred Gardaph?, Jennifer Gug...