Adria Bernardi

• Sep-2000
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2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Selected by Frank Conroy In the Gathering Woods contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twen...

• Jul-2001
• / Literary
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A fictional account of the lives of sixteenth-century Italian artisans, artists, and peasants explores their different responses to similiar life-and-death experiences as they deal with the demands of fame, family, and art against the backdrop of a p...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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In hauntingly evocative prose, Adria Bernardi creates a finely stitched fabric depicting the intertwined lives of three generations of closely related Italian families. At the novel’s beginning, Imola Bartolai’s lucid, yet troubled voice speaks f...

• Oct-2012
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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Born out of fragments of breakages made by leavings off, such as occurs in immigration and other traumatic experiences, the IPPY Award-winning essays of DEAD MEANDER investigate how things can be made whole, or more whole...

• Aug-2022
• / Literary
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Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeA universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imaginationFor nearly two decades...