Vincent Oppedisano

Sketches Of The Common Saints (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sketches Of The Common Saints is an audacious, funny, and wistful portrayal of a Southern Italian family and the genuine world they inhabit. From the ominous beauty of Reggio Calabria, through the baroque cityscapes of Torino, to the promise and sometimes harsh reality of Toronto's working-class streets, these nine interrelated sketches are reflections of common folk and their journey towards a kind of sainthood in the culmination of a dream.

Told from various perspectives, in clear and fast-paced prose that often dances with the poetic, each story is conveyed through an unfiltered lens of blunt realism imbued with imagery that evokes the common beauty of a working-class culture navigating the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a willing and necessary diaspora. Steeped in a traditional world where the sanctity of the family and the suffocating beauty of the Catholic Church often intermingle with the dark doorways of iniquity and the unforgiving weight of burden; these people face the emptiness and the absurdity and the bounty of life, with a jaundiced eye and an unbridled passion, offering no apologies and putting on no airs. Taken on their own, or as a part of the larger narrative, the stories befit a boisterous Sunday table replete with heaping plates of pasta, carafes of homemade wine, and the fullness of life unfolding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alyriel Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223290605
• Artikelnr.: 69692457

Autorenporträt

The author has been writing for many years. Even as life has been happening and he's been busy making other plans, he has always been writing. Now he has finally decided, not only to write, but to be a Writer.

He is a proponent of great literature and recommends reading Hemingway, Celine, Kerouac, Eliot, Dostoyevsky, and as many works of the Western canon as a life of reading will allow. He believes, with unwavering conviction, that just like great music and great art, great literature is great for a reason and it should be read with voracious audacity; detractors and decolonizers be damned.

He currently lives outside of Toronto with his family and he writes.