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In a Glass House de Nino Ricci
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In a Glass House (1993 original; edició 1994)

de Nino Ricci (Autor)

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After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of Vittorio's life within an immigrant Italian farming community in Southwestern Ontario, through his university years, and then into Africa where he goes to teach. At the centre of Vittorio's existence is his strained relationship with his father and with his half-sister, Rita. In a Glass House is a haunting tale about perseverance and longed-for redemption. Ricci juxtaposes the intimate, complex world of family, with "its shadowy intricate web of alliances," against the dislocations of the immigrant experience. The result is a richly textured and memorable novel.… (més)
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Títol:In a Glass House
Autors:Nino Ricci (Autor)
Informació:McClelland & Stewart (1994)
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In a Glass House de Nino Ricci (1993)

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Very disappointing. First volume of trilogy, "Lives of the Saints," (1990) is superb. "In a Glass House" (1993) is second volume and so disappointing, given the high expectations one has after the first volume. Canadian novelist and critic Ray Robertson was on target to say " In a Glass House reads more like a memoir than a novel ...the seemingly endless self-analysis that both [Ricci and Proust] authors' protagonists are given to is often overwhelming in its solipsistic repetitiveness ... at times, a kind of cerebral claustrophobia occasionally descends making one wish for something besides the first-person protagonist's troubled soul as an organizing narrative device." Will pass on trying the third volume of trilogy, "Where She Has Gone" (1997). ( )
  Lasitajs | Oct 6, 2022 |
This is the middle book of a trilogy. The first book is Lives of the Saints, and the final one is Where She Has Gone.

In this novel, we see young Vittorio arrive in Canada with his new born sister. His mother has died in childbirth on the boat. Vittorio must struggle to reconnect with his father, whom he hasn't seen in many years, as he adjusts to a new culture. These adjustments are complicated by the fact of baby Rita, who is not Vittorio's father's daughter.

This is a moving story. The novel is driven by the characters and by family relationships. Mr. Ricci is able to draw the reader into various situations and create empathy for the characters even if you don't agree with them.

On a personal note, I read the final book first. I then read the first one and the second one. I think I enjoyed the trilogy more knowing how it ended. "Back stories" have a unique charm and gave me a different perspective. As George Lucas knows! ( )
  LynnB | Sep 25, 2009 |
This is a story of a young Italian boy named Vittorio, or Victor, He
comes to Canada from Italy with his family, and now that he is there, everything is different. He must go to school, learn English and work on his father’s farm, all new concepts to him. It tells of Italian culture as well as Canadian culture, showing the many differences between the two as a young boy struggles to survive with new people who speak a new language in a new world. He fights family problems, such as his dad leaving for days at a time and his mother leaving his newborn baby sister. ( )
  missyr46 | Oct 8, 2008 |
The first book of a trilogy always seems to be the best!!! ( )
  ilovecookies | Mar 16, 2008 |
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"And we shall all come forth without shame and shall stand before Him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' and He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.' "
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The town of Mersea rested on a small bluff that looked out over the shores of Lake Erie; and had the waters of that lake not reversed their flow from the Mississippi to the St. Lawrence when some cataclysm of nature opened up the Niagara Gorge, the few acres of raised land on which Mersea sat might have remained an island, cut off from the mainland by ten or fifteen miles of shallow lake.
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After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of Vittorio's life within an immigrant Italian farming community in Southwestern Ontario, through his university years, and then into Africa where he goes to teach. At the centre of Vittorio's existence is his strained relationship with his father and with his half-sister, Rita. In a Glass House is a haunting tale about perseverance and longed-for redemption. Ricci juxtaposes the intimate, complex world of family, with "its shadowy intricate web of alliances," against the dislocations of the immigrant experience. The result is a richly textured and memorable novel.

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