(First Edition) 1979 HC The other side: Growing up Italian in America by Panella, Vincent, and Susan Sichel (photos)

Panella, Vincent, and Susan Sichel (photos)

ISBN 10: 0385147333 / ISBN 13: 9780385147330

Published by Doubleday, 1979

About this Item

First Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Seller Inventory # hd-bs5

Bibliographic Details

• Title: (First Edition) 1979 HC The other side: Growing up Italian in America by Panella, Vincent, and Susan Sichel (photos)
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385147333
• ISBN 13: 9780385147330
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: DUST JACKET
• Weight: 32 ounces

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Synopsis

The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American its cloying love, intense frugality, obsession with security, and its strong sense of family cohesion. He writes of his boyhood in Queens, New York, his father's efforts to shape his life, and of the fact that “to be a member of an Italian family is never to be simply yourself.”

The Other Side is also Vincent Panella’s personal journey, from rejection of his family to a realization that he cannot escape or deny his origins. This final recognition emerges after an extended visit to Italy, where he comes to know those in his family who remained behind. Thus Vincent Panella has written a book of a family’s journey from southern Italy to Hell’s Kitchen and the New York suburbs, a young man’s journey to a sense of identity. The story is given an added dimension by the author’s wife, Susan Through her own photographs, and through her selection of photographs from family albums, Ms. Sichel further evokes the life and times of three generations of an immigrant family.