In the Gathering Woods (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize)

In the Gathering Woods (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize)

2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Selected by Frank ConroyIn 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's 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, … Read more

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