Kenwick Drive: Growing up Italian in Lyncourt - Couverture souple

Visconti, Lugi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0997624507 ISBN 13 : 9780997624502

Editeur : Field Days Press, 2016

Synopsis

Lyncourt in the 1960s was a haven for Italian families growing up in Syracuse, New York. Lugi Visconti, third kid in the family, moves to Kenwick Drive just in time for Kindergarten at Assumption Catholic. Gramma is distraught over his family moving out her upstairs apartment and relocating all of 2 miles away from the north side of Syracuse. Lugi meets friendly Germans in a mostly Italian neighborhood and makes lots of new friends on Kenwick Drive. He becomes a junior scientist in “The Science Club” and learns to capture bugs and nail them to ceiling tiles, or feed them to spiders or lizards. The club’s first carnival is a huge success until an irate parent demands a refund for 500 pollywogs. Unseen ghouls reside in a scary attic, waiting to capture Lugi if he walks the darkened hallway alone at night. Spirits abound on Kenwick Drive and a séance is held to determine the fate of John F. Kennedy. He’s really not dead, you know, in a time when kids went out alone on Halloween and the Rudolph cartoon only came on once a year. His Italian Gramma teaches Lugi that food is the solution to all of life’s problems so it’s a dilemma whenever he doesn’t eat enough. They butt heads over his refusal to let her walk him home from school – big boys in Kindergarten don’t need help from their Gramma, it’s embarrassing. Dad’s most happy while attending clambakes, although he thoroughly suffers the side effects. An ancient backyard neighbor shares Dad’s taste for drink, mistakenly thinks him the father of every child in sight, and offers advice to limit the population growth. Along with his brother, Lugi enjoys the thrill of pulling pranks on Dad while he’s asleep. Mom runs the household, answers the endless doorbell ringing, and dispenses judgment on all breathing creatures. Being Italian helps, but doesn’t guarantee her approval. Older siblings happily demonstrate the meaning of might means right, and delight in providing Lugi with remedial lessons. Laugh along and learn ingenious (or at least original) ways how to avoid bullies, safely navigate hostile Nuns, contact the spirit world, talk with tipsy neighbors, and explain the need for a yardstick in the bathroom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Humorist Lugi Visconti spreads laughter and an escape from the daily grind. His comedic memoir, Kenwick Drive, captures a 1960s Catholic, Italian-American boyhood. Laugh along with Lugi as he meets colorful neighbors, makes new friends, and endures the rituals of childhood in Lyncourt - a mostly Italian suburb of Syracuse, NY. He became the bravest one in his boyhood club for killing a wasp with his bare hands and for risking life and limb as a go-cart test driver. As a teenager he was renowned speed drinker and following high school he won a Halloween costume contest aboard the USS Lawrence while on deployment in the Persian Gulf. The highlight of his life was meeting his future wife, Suzanne, at the Tip-a-Few in Eastwood. Following a four year enlistment in the Navy Lugi embarked on a 33 year career with Lockheed Martin and focused on raising a family. An avid fisherman, Lugi enjoys chasing walleyes on Oneida Lake and the annual trips to Canada with his buddies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Field Days Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0997624507
• ISBN 13: 9780997624502
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 210
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