Nino Ricci

Lives of the Saints

1 - Lives of the Saints (Jan-1990)
2 - In a Glass House (Oct-1995)
3 - Where She Has Gone (Jul-1998)

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  Lives of the Saints
  

  • Jan-1990
  • / General Fiction
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  Lives of the Saints - 1
  

  When young Vittorio Innocentes mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one sees the blue-eyed stranger leaving except for Vittorio. He struggles to keep his mothers secret but secrets in a small village are hard to keep, and w...

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  The Book Of Saints
  

  • Jun-1991
  • / General Fiction
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  Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction
  
  Set in a small, golden village nestled in folds of the Italian Apennines, The Book of Saints is a deceptively simple novel of startling power and ...

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  In a Glass House
  

  • Oct-1995
  • / General Fiction
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  Lives of the Saints - 2
  

  After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that f...

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  Where She Has Gone
  

  • Jul-1998
  • / Suspense
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  Lives of the Saints - 3
  

  Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one’s longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father’s deat...

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  Testament
  

  • May-2003
  • / General Fiction
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  A fictional biography of the earthly life of Jesus told from the perspectives of four fascinating figures, by the author of Where She Has Gone.In powerful accounts colored by their own beliefs and devices, the following men and women tell the captiva...

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  The Origin of Species
  

  • Oct-2008
  • / Literary
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  Set in Montreal in the 1980s, The Origin of Species tells the story of thirty-something Alex Fratarcangeli ("I can't even pronounce it myself," he admits to an acquaintance), plagued by a familiar sense of being a fraud in all aspects of his life, fr...

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  Sleep
  

  • 2015
  • / General Fiction
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  From multi-award winning author Nino Ricci comes a novel of devastating emotional power and intelligence, and often breathless suspense--now in paperback.
  
  
  David Pace is a man who has it all--a successful career as an almost-famous academic...

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