The Right Thing to Do - Hardcover

Hendin, Josephine Gattuso

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879236396 ISBN 13: 9780879236397

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1998

Synopsis

Gina comes in conflict with her father, Nino, an immigrant Italian who is unwilling to let her break with traditon and find the freedom she desires

About this title

About the Author:

JOSEPHINE GATTUSO HENDIN, who grew up in Queens and now lives in Manhattan, is professor of English at New York University. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Hendin is the author of many critical works. Her book Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 was an ALA notable book of the year. MARY JO BONA is assistant professor of Italian American studies at the State University of New York at Stonybrook and author of Claiming a Tradition: Italian-American Women Writers.

Review:

"The Right Thing to Do effectively portrays both New York's Italian immigrant milieu and one man's rage at his own powerlessness in the face of his child's hunger for life." Booklist

"Father Nino is an interesting character overbearing but not coarse, not the undershirted whassamattayou of the stereotype. . . . Hendin has invested her novel with familial dignity . . . credibility and intelligence." Kirkus

"Hendin's novelistic skill emerges in her portrait of the tyrannical father Nino one of the memorable characters of recent fiction." Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

"The Right Thing to Do effectively portrays both New York's Italian immigrant milieu and one man's rage at his own powerlessness in the face of his child's hunger for life." ―Booklist

"Father Nino is an interesting character―overbearing but not coarse, not the undershirted whassamattayou of the stereotype. . . . Hendin has invested her novel with familial dignity . . . credibility and intelligence." ―Kirkus

"Hendin's novelistic skill emerges in her portrait of the tyrannical father Nino―one of the memorable characters of recent fiction." ―Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0879236396
• ISBN 13: 9780879236397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211