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Over fifty years after its first publication, my father's novel 'Christ in Concrete' finally has an inspired interpretation set down for review in our time and future generations. (Richard DiDonato) Napolitano has produced a significant contribution to American literary studies. This pioneering study will benefit students, teachers and scholars alike. Her insight into the Italian and American contexts of DiDonato's masterpiece is certain to generate renewed interest in, and new readings of, this classic American writer. 'An American Story' is a major breakthrough for American cultural studies. (Fred L. Gardaphe, Columbia College, Chicago) Louise Napolitano's thematic study on Pietro DiDonato's life and work skillfully traces the Italian pilgrim's thirst in the new world for learning in order to free himself and his own ghettoized province from bondage. The self-made man of the Renaissance, the all-knowing artist and intellectual born outside of any academic schooling, he appears to be resurrected with enduring love and personal sacrifice by the immigrant that DiDonato mirrored with his art, and critically reconstucted by Louise Napolitano in her own book. (Giose Rimanelli) Ultimately Napolitano does what a good critic should do, engage the artist and other interested parties in intelligent conversation that makes reading a communal event. (Fred L. Gardaphe, Voices in Italian Americana)

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The Author: Louise Napolitano is an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. She has also taught at the University of Maryland and the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature form the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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