Word: torregrecca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Torregrecca (1969), Miss Cornelisen's first book-length portrait of this living past, was a small classic. A documentary written like a novel, it dramatized a cultural collision that set a slightly brash ex-Vassar girl trying to organize nursery centers against a cast of southern Italians as passively resistant as one of their mountain roads. Vendetta of Silence is a novel written like a documentary. "At the request of my publishers and my lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story...
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