TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lapolla,Garibaldi
AU  - Belluscio,Steven
TI  - The Grand Gennaro
T2  - Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)
SN  - 9780813545684
AV  - PS3523.A659 .G783 2009 
U1  - 813.52 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Italian Americans
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - An illiterate Calabrian in southern Italy owes money to his church and mayor. He skips town for the bustling streets of New York. Meeting an old friend, a fellow immigrant, he thanks him for help getting settled, and then steals his money. With a new parcel of wealth, he materializes from a small-time laborer into a big-time entrepreneur, soon becoming the tyrant of the local Italian American community. By pluck, luck, and unscrupulous business practices, this cunning character "makes America." There are riches, pleasure, and the beautiful Carmela. Then trouble. Comeuppance. Ambush. Revenge.Twenty-first century popular culture? Not at all. The Grand Gennaro, a riveting saga set at the turn of the last century in Italian American Harlem, reflects on how youthful acts of cruelty and desperation follow many to the grave. A classic in the truest sense, this operatic narrative is alive once again, addressing the question: How does one become an "American"?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813548470
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813548470
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813548470/original
ER  -