The Dream Book - (Writing American Women) by Helen Barolini (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Drawing on rare sources and archival material Helen Barolini has collected for the first time in one volume fifty-six works by Italian American women writers.

Review Quotes

Barolini's powerful introduction, exploding the silence of Italian American women writers, is an impassioned and magnificent contribution . . . It is a book of heroic recovery and affirmation.-- "Alice Walker"

Helen Barolini, a novelist and poet, has pulled together these disparate parts--prose and poetry, one play, some oral history and a good deal of fiction--and introduced them with a cogent essay about the barriers to Italian-American women writers, within their own ethnic tradition as well as within the world of publishing.-- "The New York Times Book Review"

About the Author

Helen Barolini is the author of seven books including Umbertina and Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. She has also written over fifty short stories and essays which have appeared in numerous publications. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.