My Son The American - Christy, Eugene
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Tony and Gigi are two young people coming from very different places who fall together in the embrace of passion. It takes one kiss. But even before that kiss, they beg to agree, never to share their secrets. Gigi sees them with children, nine children. But on their wedding night, a knock comes at the door. Will the ghost of Laura Antonelli permit their love? The scene is the North End of Boston, in the dramatic days of The Great War, the Molasses Flood, the flu pandemic of 1918. Then the turbulent Twenties test them with the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, and next the Depression challenges…mehr

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Tony and Gigi are two young people coming from very different places who fall together in the embrace of passion. It takes one kiss. But even before that kiss, they beg to agree, never to share their secrets. Gigi sees them with children, nine children. But on their wedding night, a knock comes at the door. Will the ghost of Laura Antonelli permit their love? The scene is the North End of Boston, in the dramatic days of The Great War, the Molasses Flood, the flu pandemic of 1918. Then the turbulent Twenties test them with the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, and next the Depression challenges their very survival, only to bring them to the brink of World War II. Will Gigi's prophecy of nine children come true? Can Tony make a lasting peace with himself in spite of loving two women? Will their son, the American, survive the Battle of Salerno and his return to Alta Villa, the place where his father began? My Son The American is the second of five novels by author Eugene Christy in The Twentieth Century Quintet, which tells the saga of three generations of an American immigrant family. The author is this year's winner of a full scholarship to the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop, awarded annually by Founder / Director Joy Baglio.
Autorenporträt
Eugene Christy holds his B.A. from Boston College, 1968, and his M.A. from the University of Rhode Island, 1970. He has been many things, a parent, a teacher, a writer, a musician, a traveler in foreign lands, and an LPN, and is the author of The Twentieth Century Quintet, a five-volume historical fiction series telling the saga of three generations of an American immigrant family from 1899 to 1972, published by Adelaide Books, New York and Lisbon, in 2020 and 2021. Mr. Christy humbly credits his maternal grandparents, Antonio Scioscia and Giuseppina Fabrizio, who came from Alta Villa Irpina, near Avellino, in the Mezzogiorno, his mother and her six brothers and sisters, as well as his father, who was a coal miner from Fayette County, PA, as the models for the characters who appear under other names in his fiction. He has been fortunate to study under the notable writers Seán O'Faoláin, James Dickey, and Larry McMurtry. His latest novel is a radical departure from anything he has done before, a Washington, DC political thriller called Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.