An edition of The music of the inferno (1999)

The music of the inferno

a novel

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An edition of The music of the inferno (1999)

The music of the inferno

a novel

"At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro, an orphan of ambiguous racial and ethnic identity, disappears from his hometown of Utica, New York. At sixty he returns, forgotten by nearly everyone and searching the bin of memory for something to salvage. Having lived for decades inside a bookstore, his search for identity has taken him into the world of great literature and the history of Utica itself, and so his quest must be to create a memory, a history, and an identity from his reading.

He becomes a man made of words, a patchwork of styles and rhetoric, an artifice."--BOOK JACKET.

"In the cellar of a restaurant, Robert tells his stories of the past to six other men: stories of Utica, of New York State, and ultimately of America itself, as well as of the intimate involvement of Italian immigrants with these histories.

The other characters respond in a kind of collective storytelling, a play of voices probing the various themes of history, genealogy, fatherhood, race, lost children, the presentness of the past, community, and, finally, storytelling itself as the power guiding all, informing their sense of everything, as they grope imaginatively toward a sense of life and their place in it."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
219

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Cover of: The music of the inferno
The music of the inferno: a novel
1999, State University of New York Press
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Edition Notes

Map of Tagliaferro's East Utica on endpapers.

Published in
Albany
Series
SUNY series in Italian/American culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3562.E4937 M87 1999, PS3562.E4937M87 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
219 p. :
Number of pages
219

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32907M
Internet Archive
musicofinferno00lent
ISBN 10
0791443477, 0791443485
LCCN
99014974
OCLC/WorldCat
41026439
Library Thing
2367120
Goodreads
1417248
315803

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