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Island Fever

Island Fever

Richard Natale
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Just a short ferry boat ride from Manhatttan, Staten Island remains culturally as far as possible from the “center of the universe”. In Island Fever, Richard Natale brings us a remarkable quartet of interconnected stories exploring the lives of four women on Staten Island over a span of four decades. Natale's prose is commanding, exquisite and beautiful. There is Berthe, who moves there from South America with her husband, an "effortless salesman," only to find that the odds for happiness stacked against her. Then there’s Albertina, who is struggling to make sense of a life unraveling in ways she can neither stand nor understand. But it’s Irina who shatters all the gender rules with matter-of-fact candor in a first person account of her sexual hungers and satisfactions. In another story, a character wonders why we never see our parents' "other" lives--who they are when they are without us. Richard Natale's rich prose and crtystal-clear insights unlock quite a few secrets of Staten Island --- and the world beyond it.
Pages
58
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
July 11, 2014

Island Fever

Richard Natale
0/5 ( ratings)
Just a short ferry boat ride from Manhatttan, Staten Island remains culturally as far as possible from the “center of the universe”. In Island Fever, Richard Natale brings us a remarkable quartet of interconnected stories exploring the lives of four women on Staten Island over a span of four decades. Natale's prose is commanding, exquisite and beautiful. There is Berthe, who moves there from South America with her husband, an "effortless salesman," only to find that the odds for happiness stacked against her. Then there’s Albertina, who is struggling to make sense of a life unraveling in ways she can neither stand nor understand. But it’s Irina who shatters all the gender rules with matter-of-fact candor in a first person account of her sexual hungers and satisfactions. In another story, a character wonders why we never see our parents' "other" lives--who they are when they are without us. Richard Natale's rich prose and crtystal-clear insights unlock quite a few secrets of Staten Island --- and the world beyond it.
Pages
58
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
July 11, 2014

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