Mary Ann Donovan

Italian Wisdom (eBook, ePUB)

Or the World According to John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From bumper stickers to self-help books and everything in between, people love having deep and complex thoughts presented to them in simple, short, and sometimes amusing sayings. Italian Wisdom or the World According to John is a compilation of quirky pearls of folk wisdom passed down from an Italian father to his children. John Calderone grew up in two worlds, a tight Italian community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the larger world of a multi-cultural America on its way to becoming a major world power. He experienced first hand the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the booming growth that followed two world wars. A raconteur by nature, John loved to tell the tales of the life he lived and the experiences he had. John saw the world through his own unique lens. He had a long list of pithy phrases he used to express the conclusions he had formed about life and how to live it. Whenever he had the opportunity, he passed his wisdom along to his family and friends. Along with providing food, clothing, and shelter to his family, he felt it was important to give his children the benefit of his wisdom to help them to navigate the world around them so that they might live joy-filled lives. While the sayings in Italian Wisdom or the World According to John seem to be simple and amusing on the surface, with reflection, they reveal a deeper meaning. In this book of essays, author Mary Ann Donovan, explores the more complicated ideas expressed in the seemingly simple and sometimes strangely expressed sayings her father, John Calderone passed down to his family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504932349
• Artikelnr.: 54706708

Autorenporträt

Sometime after the age of twenty-five, when she and her husband David became parents and began to raise their own family, Mary Ann Donovan found herself repeating to her children the weird sayings her father often said to her as she was growing up. A child of a large, extended, and loving Italian family, Mary Ann realized that much of what her father, John Calderone, had said to her was rooted in the cultural history of her family. In many cases, the sayings encapsulated a complex truth based on her father's view of the world as he saw it and as he experienced it. An opportunity to write an essay about the best advice she had ever received from a parent caused Mary Ann to reflect on the wisdom that had been passed down to her by her father. She began to compile a list of his sayings. As she thought about each of them, she realized there was a deeper meaning, a folk wisdom, carried in every one of his short and sometimes strange sayings. She decided to write a series of reflective essays based on her father's wise words. Mary Ann lives with her husband David in New York. A proud parent of three daughters and nine grandchildren, Mary Ann takes every opportunity to pass along the Italian wisdom of her father to her own family and friends.