Elizabeth Street - Couverture souple

Fabiano, Laurie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547744943 ISBN 13 : 9780547744940

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2011

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

 Before there was The Godfather, there was the Black Hand - and Laurie Fabiano has turned her family's experience into a riveting tale." –Tom Brokaw "Elizabeth Street is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the author’s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century." --Maria Laurino First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York's Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband...Basing this story—including the kidnapping—on her own family's immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community.--Booklist "Historians have done what they can to illuminate the world of the earliest American Mafiosi, but there is only so much that the few surviving documents can tell us. Laurie Fabiano takes us much further in Elizabeth Street. Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian-Americans, she paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants' lives in the first years of the last century, but of the vicious criminals who preyed on them. Readers will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the early Mafia, its characters and methods - and some insights that historians can't give them." –Dr. Mike Dash, author of The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten years of the last century, but of the vicious criminals who preyed on them.”—Mike Dash, author of The First Family

In Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. With stories culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New York’s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging during a family outing to Coney Island.

However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher, Giovanna desperately struggles to remain outside the fray, so she may fight for—and finally save—what is important above all else: family.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547744943
• ISBN 13: 9780547744940
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400