The end
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, the story presents ev...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Saint Paul, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
c2008.
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| Summary: | It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, the story presents everything Rocco sees through the eyes of various characters in the crowd. |
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| Physical Description: | 297 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781555974985 (alk. paper) 1555974988 (alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | Salvatore Scibona 's fiction has been published in The Threepenny Review and the Pushcart Prize anthology. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is the writing coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
