Results for "Ciabattari, Mark"

Fiction. Italian American Studies. ... Ciabattari brims with brio in this fanciful, cannily humorous look at the jungles of darkest Manhattan. Twenty-one brief 'dreams' or vignettes introduce Rizzoli, a modern Everyman who tries to do his work, retain a shred of dignity, and, maybe, find a little af... Read More about Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli (VIA Folios #146)

An old hand at postmodern literary play, Ciabattari is one writer who could claim charter membership in the Pirandello and Calvino schools of literary humor, and if his first three Rizzoli books were not sufficiently persuasive, you'd have no choice but to recognize his important contribution to lit... Read More about When the Mask Slips

Fiction. Italian American Studies. In the second collection of vignettes featuring middle-aged New Yorker Rizzoli, Ciabattari skillfully captures the nature of dreams, using a mixture of reality and surrealism to reveal our common fears and desires... The dreams are sometimes poignant, sometimes fun... Read More about The Literal Truth (VIA Folios #147)

Praise for Mark Ciabattari's Rizzoli saga: ""With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed." -Publishers Weekly.... Read More about Preludes to History: The Head, The Satyr And The Mermaid