Solitude and Other Stories represents Arturo Vivante's quest to use writing to uncover hidden truths. These twenty-four short stories―set in Italy, New England, and Canada―explore various themes, including, as the title story says, solitude. Vivante begins the narrative with a self-oblivious solitude that will become loneliness. Day after day, night after night, Vivante's narrator becomes aware of his isolation, and he decides to seek the company of others. Companionship, therefore, becomes another theme developed in these stories. Although not explicitly autobiographical, many of these stories do have an autobiographical tone. Vivante writes about things that may have happened in his life. His stories often stem from the observation of a bright or meaningful moment, and always center on exploring the ideas and emotions of his characters. Written with clarity, simplicity, and sincerity, Solitude and Other Stories is a lovely collection from an accomplished author. "Arturo Vivante’s stories glow with a special radiance. Solitude is a fine collection."―Elizabeth Spencer "No one can touch Vivante for his affectionate mix of lively story and both serious and funny sensuality. When the author himself likes life and people and nature this much, the world’s big joys and little joys spring up in any reader. There isn’t a dud in the lot, and several of this collection are extraordinary. Vivante is just plain more affectionate toward the world than most story tellers. The book is incandescent all through."―Carol Bly

Solitude and Other Stories (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Vivante, Arturo

Contemporary

University of Notre Dame Press

Solitude and Other Stories represents Arturo Vivante's quest to use writing to uncover hidden truths. These twenty-four short stories - set in Italy, New England, and Canada - explore various themes, including, as the title story says, solitude. Vivante begins the narrative with a self-oblivious solitude that will become loneliness. Day after day, night after night, Vivante's narrator becomes aware of his isolation, and he decides to seek the company of others. Companionship, therefore, becomes another theme developed in these stories. Although not explicitly autobiographical, many of these stories do have an autobiographical tone. Vivante writes about things that may have happened in his life. His stories often stem from the observation of a bright or meaningful moment, and always center on exploring the ideas and emotions of his characters. Written with clarity, simplicity, and sincerity, Solitude and Other Stories is a lovely collection from an accomplished author.

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters/Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction in 2006, Arturo Vivante has been an acclaimed and beloved storyteller for over fifty years. Seventy of his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker. In his third and newest novel, Truelove Knot, he artfully orchestrates a tale of first love during World War II. “Arturo Vivante is a present past master of the lyric line, a poet of romantic possibility. And in this gripping tale of love at first sight in wartime, he writes with force and grace. The young couple, their friends and families, the Atlantic Ocean that divides them, the war itself―all these are vividly described.” ―Nicholas Delbanco, author of Spring and Fall and What Remains “Arturo Vivante's gifts as a writer―his gentle insight, his deep and passionate appreciation of the human drama―are thrillingly present in Truelove Knot

Truelove Knot: A Novel of World War II

United States

This collection of stories portrays the members of a Sienese family--a philosopher-patriarch, a determinedly domestic mother, and a son who has abandoned medicine for painting--as they struggle to save the family estate

Run to the Waterfall

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Focuses on characterization, plot, dialogue, theme, viewpoint, form, and language in explaining the fundamentals of writing novels and short stories

Writing Fiction

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Writer

The Tales of Arturo Vivante

The Sheep Meadow Press

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Solitude and Other Stories (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

Solitude and Other Stories (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

Truelove Knot: A Novel of World War II

Run to the Waterfall

Writing Fiction

The Tales of Arturo Vivante