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When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908 1950) was one of Italy s best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. But later he grew disaffected with American culture, coming to see it as materialistic and shallow. This book, the first full-length English-language study of Pavese in twenty years, examines his life and the evolution of his views of America through a chronological reading of his works. As an adolescent and young man, Pavese immersed himself in American literature, especially that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1930, at the height of Italian Fascism s popul… More >>
Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
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Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
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Voices from Israel: Israeli Poets Speak to America of Life and Home, Anguish and Sorrow, Love, Joy and Hope
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This eloquent collection of poems by accomplished English-speaking Israelis conveys the heart, soul, and sinew of one nation of pioneers to another. the striking Marc Chagall cover provides additional appeal to this literary first … More >>
Voices from Israel: Israeli Poets Speak to America of Life and Home, Anguish and Sorrow, Love, Joy and Hope
Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism
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Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation’s consciousness, the media focused on a working-class white woman named Lois Gibbs, who gained prominence as an activist fighting to save families from the poison buried beneath their homes. Her organization, the Love Canal Homeowners Association, challenged big government and big business-and ultimately won relocation. But as Elizabeth Blum now shows, the activists at Love Canal were a very diverse lot. Blum reveals that more lurks beneath the surface of this story than most people realize-and more than mere toxins. She takes readers behind the headli… More >>
Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism