The Book Shed

B. Amore, the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont created the multimdeia exhibtion, Life Line-Filo Della Vita which was shown to great acclaim at Ellis Island Boston, Rome and Naples. In addition to photos from the exhibition there are essays by noted Italian artists and academics discussing the immigrant experience and the " aesthetics of cultural memory and the persistence of ethnic identity to issuse of gender, race, and generational change in Italian-American history and life." Signed by Amore on the half-title page. "Written by acclaimed artist and educator B. Amore, An Italian American Odyssey: Through Ellis Island and Beyond is not just a single person's memoir - it is the collective memoir of seven generations of an Italian-American family, chronicling the story of their journey to America. Full color photographs and collages are displayed on almost every other page of the English-language first half of the compendium; the second half presents an Italian translation of the English text, though without the photographs. The text is not a single continuous text, but rather an eclectic selection of vignettes, first-person testimonies, letters, insights, diaries, and much more. An Italian American Odyssey is a treasure to be savored a few pages at a time or all at once, and a wondrous window into the difficult yet often rewarding task of adapting to new challenges." Midwest Book Review. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. Exhibition Cat. / Hard Cover.