The Fire in the Flesh

by Garibaldi M. Lapolla

Book Overview

Set in turn-of-the-century Italian Harlem, the gripping immigrant epic The Fire in the Flesh puts into motion both a business plot and an occasionally intersecting love plot that ensnare its principal characters as they make their uneasy adjustments to the ways of urban America. In the love plot, which begins in Villetto, Italy, protagonist Agnese Filoppina bears the child of priest Gelsomino Merlino and, while bearing the brunt of the village's scorn,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159954038X
• ISBN13: 9781599540382
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"