The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn

by Anthony Valerio

Overview

The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn by Anthony Valerio contains a series of portraits: "My Mother," "My Father," "My Sister," "My Aunts," "My Uncles" and others. Valerio writes with energy and a rich style, and has an unusually good eye for detail. The situations happen in Brooklyn in the life of an Italian-American family, and sometimes in Italy. Talk about ethnicity:It's here in dozens of guises and shapes. Rudolph Valentino figures in two stories: "You could tell Valentino coming from a mile away by his gait and the unusual swing of his arms. He placed one foot directly in front of the other and swung his arms high in front and just as high in back...and he never looked you straight in the face, tilting his head slightly away to hide his cauliflower ear and his scar." The book has zest, high humor, madness, detached reflection, and pathos.
--Los Angeles Times

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013754706
Publisher:	Daisy H Productions,LLC
Publication date:	01/11/2012
Series:	Anthony Valerio E-Book Editions , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	70 KB

About the Author

Anthony Valerio is an author, editor and teacher. His books include The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn, Valentino and the Great Italians, Lefty and Her Gangsters, The Little Sailor, BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti, Anita Garibaldi: a Biography, and Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review and his work has been anthologized by The Viking Press and Random House. Mr. Valerio has taught at New York University, The City University of New York and Wesleyan University. He is a member of PEN and The Authors Guild.



"He's just crazy enough-He knows his people-He knows his craft-He gets in, tells his story and gets out-It's what good writing should be."

--Shel Silverstein

Editorial Reviews

Anthony Valerio's fiction bears likeness to our best dreams, when the fantastical elements of the subconscious play themselves out in a vivid replica of reality. Thus, in his book, The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn, we discover that the familiar agenda of our world has on it exotica we have never before witnessed. The book is made of 14 sections that can be read as independent stories, but because all are interlocked by virtue of a common narrator, the book also works as a short, lyric nov

Bob Greene

The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn by Anthony Valerio contains a series of portraits: "My Mother," "My Father," "My Sister," "My Aunts," "My Uncles" and others. Valerio writes with energy and a rich style, and has an unusually good eye for detail. The situations happen in Brooklyn in the life of an Italian-American family, and sometimes in Italy. Talk about ethnicity:It's here in dozens of guises and shapes. Rudolph Valentino figures in two stories: "You could tell Valentino coming from a m

Malcom Boyd

It is Valerio's ability to characterize each family member with unusual, swift vividness that gives force to these portraits and gossipy revelations. A relaxed and gentle book by a talented writer.

Page Edwards