Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women by Maraini, Dacia
Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women by Maraini, Dacia

Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women

Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each...
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Author: Dacia Maraini
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Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women by Maraini, Dacia

Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women

$40.69
Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women by Maraini, Dacia

Life, Brazen and Garish: A Tale of Three Women

$40.69
Author: Dacia Maraini
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely bothers with punctuation. Mother Maria, a professional translator, writes detailed and observant letters yet doesn't see what is happening right in front of her. And grandmother Gesuina, a former stage actress, speaks into an audio recorder, giving a provocative and brutally candid performance for an imagined audience that might never listen.

Life, Brazen and Garish offers a fresh take on the epistolary novel, telling the story of a family through the fragmented and disparate perspectives of daughter, mother, and grandmother. Yet even as each woman endures her private struggles with love and betrayal, youth and maturity, knowledge and ignorance, reality and illusion, the Cascadeis forge a solidarity that transcends generations. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this novel is a triumph of narrative voice and literary style from one of Italy's most renowned writers.

Questo libro è stato tradotto grazie a un contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale italiano.
This book has been translated thanks to a contribution from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.



Author: Dacia Maraini
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 04/12/2024
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.08w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781978839731

About the Author
DACIA MARAINI is one of Italy's most pre-eminent and beloved writers. In 1973 she founded the Teatro delle Maddalene, dedicated to works by women; she has written over thirty plays, as well as such novels as Voci (Voices) and the international bestseller La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucrìa (The Silent Duchess).

ELVIRA G DI FABIO holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she directed the Italian program and taught literary translation. Among her many published works are translations of Dacia Maraini's plays "The Gecko" and "Bakunin: The Lion and the Crocodile."
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