Michael Pedretti

Time to Journey Home: Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Read about the author's journey home - travel with him as he encounters the small valley in Northern Italy that his ancestors called home for a thousand years before immigrating to a small Midwestern town in the mid-nineteenth century. There he discovered his ancestors were a kind, creative and empathetic people. As he learned more about them he became inspired to write a twelve book epic (Time to Journey Home is Book I) covering many generations in a family saga that highlights their contributions to and perspectives on life. In a separate section the author makes a plea for a new epic form - one that celebrates woman and kindness instead of man and war, the most common theme of epics of old. He asserts that epics have always defined who a people are while also providing a moral compass for how the people could and should live. Also, included is a detailed history of Genoa, Wisconsin, where his ancestors settled in the mid 1850s and where the author avows a spray drift of calmness flows through the coulee mingling with the spirit of kindness and empathy that their offspring inherited to create a way of life that inspired this book and the entire series of twelve books titled The Story of Our Stories that will follow. The appendix includes a genealogical history of the author tracing some lines of the family back to the 1500s.

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Produktdetails

• The Story of Our Stories Nr.1
• Verlag: Atmosphere Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781543998504
• ISBN-10: 154399850X
• Artikelnr.: 58741414

Autorenporträt

Michael Pedretti is currently more than halfway through writing a twelve-volume epic called "The Story of Our Stories", which tells the journey of an archetypal American family starting from the Mitochondrial Eve right through the next generation with a focus on the last families to live in Europe and the first families to settle in small town America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Time to Journey Home is volume I of that series. Pedretti has a master's degree in theater from the University of Kansas and he majored in English at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. He taught acting and directing at Berry College, the University of Dayton and Davis & Elkins College in Elkins WV. The author has directed over 100 theater productions and presented/produced over 170 shows from 30 countries. He founded Movement Theatre International in 1979 and served as its Artistic Director for over 20 years. He recently completed a two-volume book covering the work of the originating performance artists whose work was presented at the international theater festivals he produced and who challenged the theater world in the later part of the twentieth century.