Golden Wedding

[light shelfwear, modest age-toning to edges of text block, tiny red ink spot on bottom edge; jacket is moderately edgeworn, a little browned at spine, with a little paper loss at both ends of spine, tiny hole in front flap-fold]. Pagano's second novel, continuing the story of the Italian-American Simone family (from his first book, "The Paesanos"), a fictionalized version of the author's own clan. By the time Luigi and Marietta celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, Luigi, formerly a Colorado coal miner, has become the owner of a successful fruit and vegetable market, and their children have married and made their own lives: one as a prize fighter, another as an artist. Pagano was better-known (and more prolific) as a screenwriter than as a novelist, with sixteen feature films and several dozen TV series episodes to his credit between 1938 and 1969, over which time he published just three novels. (His third and final published book was "The Condemned," which appeared in 1947.) His parents had initially lived in several coal-mining communities in Colorado before settling in Denver (the partial setting for this novel, with other episodes taking place in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles), where Jo was born in 1906. An early interest in art and writing led him to the West Coast, where he began to publish (and illustrate) short fiction about 1933; he got his first serious attention when his early short story, "The Disinherited" (not to be confused with the Jack Conroy novel of the same name), published in the November 1933 issue of Scribner's Magazine, was selected for inclusion in a 1934 anthology entitled "Editor's Choice."

Product Info

Publisher: Random House

Year: (c.1943)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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