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In the Gathering Woods
Adria Bernardi
出版
University of Pittsburgh Press
, 2000-10-15
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
0822978741
9780822978749
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PRz8AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize WinnerSelected by Frank Conroy
In the Gathering Woods
, contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator's boyhood recollections of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather—a narrator who seems still haunted by a terrifying local legend that tormented him as a boy. We skip backward to a young shepherd-artist in the Apennine mountains in the 1500s, who yearns to be discovered, as Giotto was. Later, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave.Whether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl's school lessons, these stories call up fragments of language in a struggle to understand and attempt to console through the act of reassembling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the details of Bernardi's writing.