Feast of the Dead (Prose Series 39)

By Anthony Fragola

Feast of the Dead explores the theme of isolation from both American society and the Italian culture of the first generation immigrants who came to the United States. These interrelated stories focus... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550710362
• ISBN13: 9781550710366
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.4" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Absolutely agree with the previous reviewer. The book will linger with you long after you put it down. It's familiar, somehow...maybe especially if you grew up Italian-American, or in an Italian-American neighborhood. Outstanding prose.

Very much alive

You don't have to be Italian to love this gem of a book. Like a great meal served properly, I finished longing for more, hoping it was merely an appetizer for something longer from Mr. Fragola. Don't let the title fool you - this is not in the horror genre. More like James Joyce and Woody Allen, in a bite-size format (and the wonderful descriptions of food will have you salivating). The perfect book to carry with you for when you get stuck waiting somewhere, or to put by the bed to read when you first wake up or are about to drift off to sleep. The short stories stand alone but are all told from the same boy's POV and add up to a charming, poignant whole. I've been re-reading them to my elderly mother. They always trigger a cherished memory from her childhood I had never heard before. That is priceless. Children will love the stories, too.