Gioia Timpanelli
Autore di Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
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Gioia Timpanelli is an award-winning storyteller. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Tales from the Road 5 copie
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Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal (1993) — Collaboratore — 102 copie
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Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily di Gioia Timpanelli
Two fairy tales set in Sicily. While they don’t give a true sense of time and place, they do transport you to another place outside of modern urban experience. I found the two novellas entertaining and immersive. I’m curious to know more about the author, an internationally known scholar of storytelling a story gatherer, and a story telling writer. Though I’m not clear on such immensely glowing reviews on the book cover, especially Frank McCourt’s.
I had to force myself to finish this, even when I was only 15 pages from the end. There's nothing particularly bad about the writing of these two novellas, they're just painfully dull and uninteresting. A disappointment.
Highly recommended if interested in fables, folk / fairy tales.
This short novel, just 127 pages, was a trip in time and place for me. Set in the wild and rural areas of Sicily, it was reminiscent of my visits to my family's ancestral village in the mountains of Southeastern Sicily. The main character, the young boy Joseph, is the narrator. Through his eyes and lips we are given a glimpse of a poor, hungry Sicily where people survive by keeping their eyes open and the mouths shut. Despite his circumstances he is able to be happy and to survive. I think the author captured the secretive caution that flows in the veins of Sicilians.… (altro)
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