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The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego by Addiego, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego about?
The Islands of Divine Music is a novel of five generations of an Italian-American family finding its place in the New World. Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, five generations of the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco as each character brushes up against some aspect of the divine. The family matriarch is Rosari, a little girl whose family flees Italy because her prodigality is exploited by illiterate kidnappers. After her beautiful, psychotic mothers suicide, the girl and her despondent father come to San Francisco, where she meets the man shell marry, a handsome, fiercely strong peasant named Giuseppe Verbicaro. The twelve linked stories of The Islands of Divine Music are portraits of family members whose lives are interwoven in one narrative that spans 100 years. Rosari and Giuseppes oldest son, Narciso, a handsome and dim-witted dandy, barely evades death and the stain of organized crime by his simple-minded innocence and luck, while his passionate brother Ludovico, a talented third baseman in the old San Francisco minor leagues, falls prey to the illicit dreams of
Who reads The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Addiego, John
- Publisher
- Denver, Colo.: Unbridled Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781932961546
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14