Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos

Wheat Songs (eBook, ePUB)

A Greek-American Journey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeysan actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos.

When the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, a proud old man, tells his fascinating, tragic and true stories of the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II and the following Greek Civil War, to his twenty-something grandson, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos, Perry's philosophical reflections on his grandfather's stories along with his own memories of growing up in his extended Greek/Italian/American family in the Bronx combine to create an enduring story about the strength created by a tightly-knit family and the powerful values passed down from generation to generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644691434
• Artikelnr.: 58357124

Autorenporträt

Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos currently teaches philosophy courses at the College of Mt. Saint Vincent, Manhattan College, and St. John's University. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Difficult Choices
2. We¿re Not Made of Ashes
3. A Terrible Furnace
4. No Sack Full of Sugar
5. God and the Evil Eye
6. None Shall Sleep
7. Dancing in the Dark
8. A Faint Flash of Red
9. A Tempestuous History
10. The Irrational Universe
Epilogue: A Bright White Light