Offering specific tactics and advice for three distinctly different age groups, this work details the signs leading up to, and the concerns following a corporate shakeup, with tips on financial planning and remaining effective

Winning Moves

Ciabattari, Mark

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Literal Truth: Rizzoli Dreams of Eating the Apple of Earthly Delights

Poetry

Canios Editions

This ten-volume encyclopedia explores the social history of 20th-century America in rich, authoritative detail, decade by decade, through the eyes of its everyday citizens.
Social History of the United States is a cornerstone reference that tells the story of 20th-century America, examining the interplay of policies, events, and everyday life in each decade of the 1900s with unmatched authority, clarity, and insight.
Spanning ten volumes and featuring the work of some of the foremost social historians working today, Social History of the United States bridges the gap between 20th-century history as it played out on the grand stage and history as it affected―and was affected by―citizens at the grassroots level. Covering each decade in a separate volume, this exhaustive work draws on the most compelling scholarship to identify important themes and institutions, explore daily life and working conditions across the economic spectrum, and examine all aspects of the American experience from a citizen's-eye view. Casting the spotlight on those whom history often leaves in the dark, Social History of the United States is an essential addition to any library collection.
 • Entries covering the lives and contributions of ordinary citizens, social movements, religion, culture, the arts, economic and labor issues, and other aspects of American life across the 20th century
• Contributions by accomplished researchers in the field of American social history
• Sidebars providing additional emphasis on important issues and less well-known personalities
• Detailed timelines for every decade, incorporating famous events with pivotal moments that changed the lives of everyday citizens
• A thematically organized index for each of the encyclopedia's ten volumes

Social History of the United States (10 Vol. Set )

History

George, Alice L.

Greenberg, Brian

Watts, Linda S.

Beekman, Scott

Mercier, Laurie

Cohen, Nancy

Hunt,Andrew

Bucki, Cecelia

Greenwald, Richard A.

Reavley, Gordon

Stoner, John C.

Paino, Troy D.

Holloran, Peter C.

Americas

ABC-CLIO

Fiction. "With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed."—Publishers Weekly

Preludes to History (Via Folios, 114)

United States

Bordighera Press

Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli (VIA Folios)

The Literal Truth (VIA Folios)

Literary

"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 literature by the time you got to his latest Rizzoli novel, WHEN THE MASK SLIPS."--from the afterword by Fred Gardaphé Fiction. Italian Studies. Short Stories.

When the Mask Slips (Via Folios, 157)

Humor & Satire

This slim volume, a Spring Selection of the Sons of Italy Book Club, gives the reader "two for the price of one"—two intriguing short stories set in Sicily whose characters face an absurd dilemma: "The Jar" (La Giara ) by the Nobel-prize winning author Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) and "The Urn" by acclaimed contemporary writer Mark Ciabattari, author of the novels "Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli" (Dutton/Obelisk) and "The Literal Truth" (Canio's Editions) followed Rizzoli, an urban everyman adrift in contemporary New York. "The Urn," Ciabattari’s novella-length story of the peasant Grimaldi’s nightmarish fall from grace, takes place in the beautiful seaside village of Taormina in Sicily in 1895. "Ciabattari’s Clay Creatures, with its two stories—‘The Urn’ by Mark Ciabattari and ‘The Jar’ by Luigi Pirandello—is a postmodern homage to the great Italian modernist Pirandello. It should be read not only in the American literary tradition made by the likes of Paul Auster, Donald Barthelme, Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut, but also in the Italian tradition of writers like Italo Calvino. This book transcends American and Italian to become Italian American."—Fred Gardaphe, director, Italian American Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook. The critic Fred Gardaphe will do a presentation on Pirandello & Ciabattari at the Modern Language Association convention. December 2004 Presented in the form of a found journal, "The Urn" follows the misfortunes of Grimaldi from the day his every movement is shadowed by a giant urn that moves about on feet of hard clay. Grimaldi is a brick maker, who is unable to read or write, and more like than unlike most of his contemporaries. This ordinary worker becomes a "freak" as people begin to reason why this urn follows him about. Explanations range from thievery, to magic, curses, science, to the supernatural, but none satisfy everyone. Such things were said to have occurred during the Middle Ages. Essentially, the normal becomes abnormal. A friend is turned into a freak. Destiny rules, but is defied. As the strange urn becomes familiar, the abnormal eventually becomes normal, and the urn becomes a friend, moving from the strange to the familiar requiring new interpretations: Perhaps it is "the soul of a child who died before baptism!" When the authorities get involved, we see how dangerous power can rea! lly be. When things finally fall into place, we learn that reality gets squashed, repressed, eliminated, and eventually hidden, only to be recovered by a later generation who can no longer can tell the difference between truth and lies--and no longer cares. Like the jar with feet that follows Grimaldi, Luigi Pirandello shadows writers like Ciabattari. "The Urn" refers to and expands upon Pirandello’s classic, "The Jar," a story memorized by every Sicilian schoolchild, a story that has inspired a play, an opera, a section of a film ("Kaos" by the Taviani Brothers) and at least one restaurant. Here, this comic tale of the avaricious farmer and the old jar mender who rivets himself up in a jar he is repairing, creating an absurd dilemma, appears in a fresh contemporary translation by Maria Enrico. Together, these "clay creatures" provide a cross-cultural and cross-generational look at Italian and Italian American writing.

Clay Creatures

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