Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

Author/Contributor(s):	Laurino, Maria
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	06/01/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A New York writer explores the disconnect that many Italian Americans, rootedin the rocky soil of Southern Italy, feel between images from Bensonhurst andMafia movies, on one hand, and Northern Italian style and verve on the other.224 pp.