Description
| Product ID: | 9781637680780 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Neorealist in Winter |
| Subtitle: | Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Salvatore Pane |
| Page Count: | 166 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation.  Salvatore Pane’s The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what it means to be human in an age of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of speculative, historical, and postmodern storytelling, Pane grapples with legacies of immigration, poverty, toxic masculinity, and moral failures, while focusing on working-class issues, family drama, and PTSD. Following eleven Italian narrators, Pane builds a cast of cinematic characters across disparate times and places—a struggling director attends a house party in the la dolce vita of 1960s Rome, gangsters chase a low-level lottery runner in coal valley Scranton, a woman contemplates experimental surgery to purge memories of her childhood trauma in Minnesota, and a pro wrestling promoter descends into self-denial through his autobiography. The Neorealist in Winter was selected by Venita Blackburn as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Fiction Prize.  |
| Imprint Name: | Autumn House Press |
| Publisher Name: | Autumn House Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-23 |
