In a Glass House - Softcover

Ricci, Nino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312186916 ISBN 13: 9780312186913

Publisher: Picador, 1998

Synopsis

This is the second novel in Nino Ricci's Vittorio Innocente trilogy, following the award-winning The Book of Saints. As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocente arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both magical and forbidding.

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After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of Vittorio's life within an immigrant Italian farming community in Southwestern Ontario, through his university years, and then into Africa where he goes to teach. At the centre of Vittorio's existence is his strained relationship with his father and with his half-sister, Rita. In a Glass House is a haunting tale about perseverance and longed-for redemption. Ricci juxtaposes the intimate, complex world of family, with "its shadowy intricate web of alliances," against the dislocations of the immigrant experience. The result is a richly textured and memorable novel.

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Nino Ricci's first novel, The Book of Saints, has been published in ten countries and was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction. The three novels that form his Vittorio Innocente trilogy―The Book of Saints, In a Glass House, and Where She Has Gone―are all available from Picador. A past president of PEN Canada, he lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312186916
• ISBN 13: 9780312186913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288