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Unto the Sons
by Gay Talese
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0679410341
- ISBN 13
- 9780679410348
- Seller
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World
At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
Synopsis
Unto the Sons is a 1992 book by Gay Talese. The book traces the origins of Talese's own family, beginning with his great-grandfather in Maida, Italy, his grandfather who immigrated to Pennsylvania and Talese's father, who immigrated to the United States separately following World War I.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 316162806
- Title
- Unto the Sons
- Author
- Gay Talese
- Format/Binding
- New
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679410341
- ISBN 13
- 9780679410348
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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About the Seller
Janson Books
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania
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