All This Talk of Love
A Novel
by Christopher Castellani
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Pub Date Feb 05 2013 | Archive Date Feb 19 2013
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | Algonquin Books
Description
It’s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers—everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out.
But Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy—hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises, and their trip home becomes a necessary journey.
All This Talk of Love is an incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.
Advance Praise
"Funny and tragic . . . Emotionally resonant. This reviewer defies anyone not to fall in love with the Grassos. Recommended."-Library Journal
“Castellani’s third novel is his richest and most beautiful to date. With particular wisdom, he follows each of his protagonists – the Grasso family of Delaware, chief among them their matriarch, Maddalena – as their dreams are compromised by the challenges of life and the bonds of love. The last third of this novel is as moving a rendition of the losses and discoveries of old age as I have ever read.”—Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children
“With the Grasso family, Christopher Castellani has given us a nuanced and powerful depiction of loss that takes its place among classics. This unsentimental novel lays bare the complexities of human longing in taut, lyrical prose. All This Talk of Love is literature of the highest order.”—Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Corpus Christi
“I loved All This Talk of Love for both its wit and its compassion. Chris Castellani has a steady, sustained belief in the goodness of the human spirit. To be able to convey both comedy and tragedy in a single novel is a remarkable gift.”—Anita Shreve, author of Rescue
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781616201708 |
| PRICE | $13.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 352 |
