Valentino and the Great Italians: According to Anthony Valerio - Hardcover
Short stories deal with the narrator's memories of his childhood, pride in his Italian heritage, and flights of fantasy into the past
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Purporting to offer short biographies of famous Italian-Americans, the text contains minimaland trivialfacts, lost in surrealistic fantasy. Readers will have to wade through practically indecipherable, long-winded passsages to find any logical link to the approximately 20 persons named, including Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Enrico Caruso, Mario Cuomo and Lee Iacocca. Valerio's musings run to sexual recreation (mostly kinky), grotesque bodies, conversations with the Mona Lisa, invented exchanges by various people on improbable subjects, etc. It's hard to imagine any reader staying the course with this hodgepodge. (June
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- PublisherFreundlich Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0881910414
- ISBN 13 9780881910414
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages247
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good copy with good dust wrapper of a collection of "twenty-two stunning portraits" of Italian Americans. Price included dust wrapper, sheathed in a Mylar cover with very slight shelf wear, has some browning on the edge of the back flap with more browning and slight foxing along top edge. Black boards with light grey spine has bright gilt lettering. Slight fading to top and bottom of spine. Slight foxing along top and side edging. Slight foxing inside front and back covers. Inside front cover, signed by the author in blue ballpoint:"To Dr. Carlos Felix-Fretes --/ Best of everything --/ Peace, Health, Prosperity,"dated June 1986. Clean, tight text with no marks. Author is credited:"According to Anthony Valerio."Contents:"The Sicilians; Tony Bennett; Frank Sinatra; Joe DiMaggio; Jack Cusimano; Christopher Columbus; Count Piccolimani; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Paolo Buonarroti; Cesare Pavese; Pietro LaClacca; Rudolph Valentino; Mona Lisa; Giovanni Valerio; Anita Garibaldi; Elsa Rodari; The DiGeorgio Girls; The DiGeorgio Boys; Dr. Santo Spadaro; Mario Lanza; Enrico Caruso; Mario Cuomo & Lee Iacocca." 248 pages. From inside flap:"Anthony Valerio's Valentino and the Great Italians is an unblushing celebration of the Italian spirit. For the first time in the history of their lives in America, twenty-two million Italians finally have a body of positive myth."From back dust wrapper:"Valentino: The most adored matinee idol of all time, yet his life was a tragedy. Frank Sinatra: Setting the record straight about the most charismatic entertainer of our century.Mario Cuomo and Lee Iacocca: Which one will be the first Italian President of the United States?". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000269
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages; Description: 247 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Italian Americans. Italians 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 159887
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