New-Age Renaissance Man: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Italian by E. W. Bonadio
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- Pub. Date: August 2006
- Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 172pp
- ISBN-13: 9780595395521
- ISBN: 059539552X
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New-Age Renaissance Man tells the story of an inner city Italian boy growing up in a male-dominated household with Archie and Edith Bunker for parents and an eclectic supporting cast of neighborhood characters. Through a series of life experiences he comes to realize that the world around him is swiftly changing. Clinging to the ideas of the old ways, he must find common ground with his new surroundings. The sexual revolution of the 1960s changed his view of modern women, and while searching for wealth in Middle Class America he found a mixed bag of success and failure. A funny but instructive look at the life of an Italian baby boomer that mimics the ethnic experience of the time.
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New-Age Renaissance Man: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Italianby Anonymous
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September 17, 2006: The story which I consider to be a narrative?and definitely autobiographical?covers the time span from when this proud Italian boy is called Eddie Spaghetti to when he grows into a teenager and is called Little Bongo, on into adulthood, and finally into what he describes as ?the middle of middle-age.? It is an interesting adventure that he takes readers on?one that I particularly enjoyed since my daughter married an Italian man who came to America when he was five years old. After reading this book, I will hereafter refer to my son-in-law as a goombah. I want my daughter to read this book so she will have a better understanding of her husband and learn what she must do to make her spouse believe that he makes the decisions?that he is being true to his traditional ways. The author, who married Diane, his childhood sweetheart, obviously gives these instructions from being a victim of personal experience. This isn't a book just for Italians--it is a book that everyone will enjoy.
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