{"product_id":"in-the-gathering-woods-adria-bernardi-9780822957829","title":"In the Gathering Woods","description":"2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner\u003cbr\u003eSelected by Frank Conroy\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 twentieth century, with a narrator\\u2019s boyhood recollections of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather--a narrator who seems still haunted by a terrifying local legend that tormented him as a boy. We skip backward to a young shepherd-artist in the Apennine mountains in the 1500s, who yearns to be discovered, as Giotto was. Later, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave.\u003cbr\u003eWhether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl\\u2019s school lessons, these stories call up fragments of language in a struggle to understand and attempt to console through the act of reassembling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the details of Bernardi\\u2019s writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adria Bernardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822957825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822957829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 6.05w x 0.67d","brand":"Adria Bernardi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136173453567,"sku":"9780822957829","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1d0ff41-022a-47cf-a416-58def76e291e.jpg?v=1770161003","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-gathering-woods-adria-bernardi-9780822957829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}