Robert Viscusi

Astoria (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true capital of the world. In 1986, two years after his mother's death, the narrator travels from Paris to New York to Rome, unable to escape the shadow of Napoleon, the historical figure he now associates with his mother. Weaving theory upon theory in an attempt to break the hold of these visions, he finds that she represents the fury, rage, and unappeased desire of migration and the displaced people left in its wake. {Guernica Editions}

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guernica Editions Inc
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781550714142
• Artikelnr.: 37916115

Autorenporträt

Robert Viscusi is the author of the novel Astoria, which won an American Book Award in 1996, and of the long poem An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus, which he has performed in cities across the United States and in Italy. His poems and essays have appeared in many journals, from Yale Italian Studies to Barrow Street. He is professor of English and executive officer of The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College.