{"product_id":"9780822978749","title":"In the Gathering Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner\u003cbr\u003e Selected by Frank Conroy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Gathering Woods\u003c\/i\u003e 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, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl’s school lessons, these stories call up fragments of language in a struggle to understand and attempt to console through the act of reassembling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the details of Bernardi’s writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080890368240,"sku":"9780822978749","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822978749_p0.jpg?v=1763751324","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822978749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}