American English, Italian Chocolate
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American English, Italian Chocolate

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American English, Italian Chocolate

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American English, Italian Chocolate is a memoir in essaysbeginning in the American Midwest and ending in north central Italy. In sharply rendered vignettes, Rick Bailey reflects on donuts and ducks, horses and car crashes, outhouses and EKGs.He travels all night from Michigan to New Jersey to attend the funeral of a college friend. After a vertiginous climb, he staggers in clogsacross the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In a trattoria in the hills above the Adriatic, he ruminates on the history and glories of beans, from Pythagoras to Thoreau, from the Saginaw valley to the Province of Urbino. Bailey is a bumbling extra in a college production of Richard III. He is a college professor losing touch with a female student whose life is threatened by her husband. He is a father tasting samples of his daughter's wedding cake. He is a son witnessing his aging parents' decline. He is the husband of an Italian immigrant who takes him places he never imagined visiting, let alone makinghis own. At times humorous, at times bittersweet, Bailey's ultimate subject is growing and knowing, finding the surprise and the sublime in the ordinary detail of daily life.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781496201737
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Sozialwissenschaftliche Biographien

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Big White Birds
  7. 2. Boy Scouts, Ringworm, and Paris
  8. 3. Sound Off
  9. 4. Kissing Age
  10. 5. There Will Be Horses
  11. 6. Sick Wild
  12. 7. The Man from Glad, Car Crash, Amnesia
  13. 8. Clinical
  14. 9. Psyched
  15. 10. Love and Breakup in the Time of Watergate
  16. 11. Love at First Shite
  17. 12. Feet First
  18. 13. For Donna, Ibsen, Pepys, Levitation
  19. 14. The Soft Imperative
  20. 15. Third-Wave Coffee
  21. 16. Wisdom Teeth and Encyclopaedia Britannica
  22. 17. What’s Up with Dramatic-Value Vomit?
  23. 18. Old Houses, New Residents
  24. 19. Bee Spree
  25. 20. Hello, Mr. President
  26. 21. Chemical Neutral
  27. 22. Pure Corn
  28. 23. Fly
  29. 24. The Honey Room
  30. 25. Bridge Failure, Heart Attack, Fava Beans
  31. 26. Monkey, Nail Biting, Jesus
  32. 27. Cardio, Lightbulbs, and a Funeral
  33. 28. The Rule of One
  34. 29. Water Me
  35. 30. Feathers
  36. 31. The Quality of Your Sleep
  37. 32. My Father, Going Deaf
  38. 33. No Secrets, Victoria
  39. 34. Flip-Flops and the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  40. 35. Ravioli, Richard III, and a Dead Bird
  41. 36. Apri la Porta
  42. 37. Buongiorno
  43. 38. What’s New
  44. 39. Small Beans
  45. 40. American English, Italian Chocolate
  46. Source Acknowledgments
  47. About Rick Bailey