The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America

by Joanna Clapps Herman

Book Overview

"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438436319
• ISBN13: 9781438436319
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"