Italian Days (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Travel book
- Time of Work: 1985
- Setting: Italy, including Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Mouse and Abruzzi, Puglia, and Calabria
- Principal Characters: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Anna Harrison, Elizabeth Scanlon, Laura Polla Scanlon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Racism, 1980’s, Catholics or Catholic Church, Italy or Italians, Pollution, Cities or towns
- Locales: Italy
In ltalian Days, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison has two purposes: first, to describe various places in Italy so vividly that the reader has a sense of having traveled with her; and second, to explore her own reactions to the country from which both of her parents came, in order better to understand them and herself Because she has the gift of observation, Harrison has succeeded in her first objective. It is her second purpose, however, which gives this travel book its dimension, its direction, and its unity.
Harrison’s parents came to the United States from Abruzzi and...
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