Renato! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781620540428)

Renato is the sweeping "autobiography" of Renato Stillamare, a talented yet struggling artist in Boston. It was written across three decades and its parts were released in three volumes before its revision and assembly into this single masterwork. Renato is a marriage of story-telling forms, and is imbued with matters of love, sex, food, philosophy, religion, and the intricacies of family attachments. The larger canvas stretches from 1860 to the present, and from Sicily to Massachusetts. In his introduction, novelist and critic Douglas Glover remarks "Mirabelli has reinvented the peculiarly Italian, extravagantly melodramatic and often comic visionƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"the operaƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚‚ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"in the novel form."

Author: Eugene Mirabelli
ISBN-10: 1620540428
ISBN-13: 9781620540428
Publisher: McPherson
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2020
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2020
Booklist 11/01/2020 pg. 28