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"Is there anyone who can write about the connections between ordinary people as well as Ann Hood does?" ― Jodi Picoult "Glorious…Reading this novel was like taking a luscious train ride through the last century. …Full of surprise and wonder, the writing is at turns poetic and sensitive, then dynamic and wise. Ann Hood is a master craftsman. This resplendent novel is a grand crescendo in a pitch-perfect career." ― Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker's Wife "Hood reinvents the family saga into something spellbindingly new and authentically alive….From turn-of-the-century Italy to 1950s American suburbia to the psychedelic 1970s, Hood shows how love and history transform a family, fuel―and sometimes kill―their dreams, and connect them in ways they never might imagine. Sweeping, sensual, and downright astonishing." ― Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You "I loved Ann Hood's An Italian Wife in the same way I loved Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge ―and for the same reason. The interconnected stories that fan out from a central character―in this case, matriarch Josephine Rimaldi―illuminate important truths about the ways in which our families, our ancestry, and the era into which we're born shape who we become. An Italian Wife is a multi-generational masterpiece." ― Wally Lamb, author of We Are Water "A big, full-hearted grazie to Ann Hood…. She has given us a feast of a story: impressive in its range, sumptuous in its evocations of love and loss, and deeply satisfying." ― Christopher Castellani, author of All This Talk of Love --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ann Hood is the author of the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most , The Obituary Writer , and The Knitting Circle , and the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief . Her most recent books are the memoirs Fly Girl A Memoir and Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food . She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Engaging character development which make it easy to relate and follow the main characters in this tale of perseverance, determination, and even love spanning multiple generations of this family.
As a 70 year old Italian American woman I so looked forward to enjoying this book. I read the obituary writer and wanted more! What I found was pure pornography. Really?? I grew up in a true Italian female centric environment and not one of my relatives was represented here. After much thought I realized Anna was trying to show the evolution of a woman’s journey enter from agricultural to modern life in America over time. Not only was this insulting to women in general and it was extremely one sided. It never showed women in a flattering successful light. As the other reviewers mentioned I had to keep referring to the family tree to know who was who. Anna never “tied up the loose ends” bringing the story to a satisfactory conclusion. It should have been published as a series in short stories I usually pass my books on to family or friends when I’m done with them. This one is just going in the garbage where it belongs. Shame on you Anna, as my beloved grandmother would’ve said.
When one lives to the age of 100, there are many secrets that one keeps. This is true of Josephine Rimaldi, the central character of The Italian Wife. The story chronicles Josephine's life as she follows her husband to America, raises her children (giving one up for adoption in the process), and watches her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow. The reader is allowed inside Josephine's mind as she moves through the years, always watching and waiting for the return of those she loved and lost. The story seemed disjointed as the author made each chapter (or vignette) a stand alone story without any segues between the chapters. Josephine goes from being the central character at the start of the novel to being almost a footnote at the very end. The descriptions of Italian daily live seemed authentic to me as they changed through the decades. I especially enjoyed the era of the 1970s through the present day as they brought back some vivid memories for me - but this part of the book was the only thing I truly enjoyed.
The border between story cycles and novels has become permeable, and The Italian Wife stands as a luminous example of this hybrid. This is a wonderful read, touching, heart breaking and wise by turns. I am surprised and disappointed by some of the critical Amazon reviewers who complained about Italian Wife's difference from other Hood books they had enjoyed. This is indeed new ground for AH, but a territory she conveys with masterful authority. Beginning with a fable-like account of an unlettered Italian peasant girl who will take a bewildering but consequential passage to America, Hood deftly conveys how the distinctive inner gifts of this innocent work their way through generations of her female descendants. The nuanced renderings of these increasingly assimilated Italian Americans are a pleasure and a wonder to read. Hood shows considerable writerly range here, at moments a vivid fabulist reminiscent of Bashevis Singer, elsewhere a shrewd social realist in the manner of Anne Beatty, and still elsewhere a voice distinctly and powerfully her own--as revealed in the pitch perfect final story/chapter in this splendid book.
Every one of the characters were a combination of unhappy and unfulfilled. So sad. Not one woman found lasting happiness. Barely a glimmer of hope woven here and there, only to end in despair. Is that what being an Italian wife was or was it just a sign of the times? A quick read, but felt empty by the end of the book.
This book started off strong grabbing my attention right away, but then it fizzled for me. The book seemed to skip over a lot of characters, jumping to ones that previously had no story line and held no interest for me. I have enjoyed a lot of Ann Hood's books, but this one just missed the mark for me. I wish I had read the book through before recommending it to my 82 year old mother because I felt the sex scenes in the book were too over the top and added little to the story.
I wish I had read the other reviews before I purchased this book. It was a big disappointment. I had not read any other book by this author, and am not inclined to try another. There was no character development, aside from Josephine, the main character. There didn't seem to be any flow toward understanding the lives of her children. I had to check the family chart to figure out who the kids/grandkids belonged to. All the characters seemed to have a sad, flawed life, but no story as to why they became who they were. I loaned the book to a friend, with a caveat about what I thought of it. She couldn't even finish it.
The book is about different generations of an Italian family. It was interesting, but made almost all Italian women seem like loose women and most older Italian-Americans to be Fascists which is not very accurate. The story jumped around a lot and I found myself having to review the relationships of who was the sister, grandchild, great grandchild, etc. of whom.
A gritty, earthy tale. Worth the read
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From the best-selling author of The Obituary Writer , the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian-American family.
Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes. Her son suffers in World War One. One daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs, while another, stranded in England, grieves for a lover lost in World War Two. Her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll in the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.
Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, The Book That Matters Most, and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine; and several memoirs, including the bestsellers Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her most recent book, Fly Girl, a memoir about her years as a TWA flight attendant, will be published in May 2022 by WW Norton.
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by Ann Hood
From the best-selling author of The Obituary Writer , the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian-American family. An Italian Wife is the extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi—her joys, sorrows, and passions, spanning more than seven decades. The novel begins in turn-of-the-century Italy, when fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arra
From the best-selling author of The Obituary Writer , the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian-American family. An Italian Wife is the extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi—her joys, sorrows, and passions, spanning more than seven decades. The novel begins in turn-of-the-century Italy, when fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes. Her son suffers in World War I. One daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs, while another, stranded in England, grieves for a lover lost in World War II. Her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll in the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.
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September 2nd 2014
by W. W. Norton Company
(first published January 1st 2014)
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(ISBN13: 9780393241662 )
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There are books that you read and you wish you had the time you spent reading it back. This is one of those books. I never would have finished it if I hadn't received it so I could do an impartial review. So here's my impartial review. Run. Don't spend one minute reading this. It is a big waste of time and I, frankly, don't know why it was ever published. The story is about an Italian woman who marries and then moves to Rhode Island in America. She has 6 or 7 kids (I lost track). That's the ent
There are books that you read and you wish you had the time you spent reading it back. This is one of those books. I never would have finished
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