{"product_id":"in-the-gathering-woods","title":"In the Gathering Woods","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the Gathering Woods\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAdria Bernardi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822941316\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Selected by Frank Conroy In the Gathering Woods 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\\u2019s 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. Whether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl\\u2019s 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\\u2019s writing.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"In the Gathering Woods | Adria Bernardi | Hardcover | 9780822941316 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1560167","offer_id":50683409891586,"sku":"1560167","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81c66-JEiBL.jpg?v=1791425503","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/in-the-gathering-woods","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}