Contributions

  • Jewiss, Virginia - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

108,250 words, Guess

Page Count

433 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC853/.914
  • LCCPQ4873.A98 V57913 2005
  • LCCPQ

Description

Arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, struggle to surive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Italy.

First Sentence

This place is no longer a place, this landscape no longer a landscape.

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  • Vita: a novelFarrar, Straus and Giroux2005-01-01
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