The Light in the Piazza

The Light in the Piazza
Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Heinemann
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1960
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A collection of six Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.

The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales

The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780878058372

Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Collected in this volume are The Light in the Piazza, which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.

Long Shot

Long Shot
Author: Mike Piazza
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439150230

The twelve-time All-Star catcher describes the inspiration he gleaned from his self-made father, his early career with the Dodgers, his memorable 2000 World Series with the Mets, and the controversies that have marked his career.

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Author: Amara Lakhous
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609450434

The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly). Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the world. But when a tenant is murdered in the building’s elevator, the delicate balance is thrown into disarray. As each of the victim’s neighbors is questioned by the police, readers are offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome. With language as colorful as the neighborhood it describes, each character takes his or her turn “giving evidence.” Their various stories reveal much about the drama of racial identity and the anxieties of a life spent on society’s margins, but also bring to life the hilarious imbroglios of this melting pot Italian culture. “Their frequently wild testimony teases out intriguing psychological and social insight alongside a playful whodunit plot.” —Publishers Weekly

The Spitfire Grill

The Spitfire Grill
Author: James Valcq
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573629303

It all starts with the release of fidgety, suspicious Percy Talbott from state prison after serving a five-year sentence. We don't know why, only that she's released and on her way to Gilead and its "colors of paradise." But when she arrives it is February and bitter cold, and the only one around to meet her is restless Sheriff Joe Turner, who takes her to the Spitfire Grill to help the aging Hannah Ferguson run the diner. All is gray, dismal and listless around them, and the characters are in the "winter of their lives" emotionally and spiritually.

Natural Light and the Italian Piazza

Natural Light and the Italian Piazza
Author: Sandra Davis Lakeman
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Lakeman (architecture, California Polytechnic State U.) discusses design elements and the element of light in the medieval architecture of Italy and examines the relationship between space and light and the way we experience them, focusing on Siena's Piazza del Campo. Includes some 90 color photos a

The Piazza Tales

The Piazza Tales
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1856
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.

Prayer for My Enemy

Prayer for My Enemy
Author: Craig Lucas
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559368098

Craig Lucas' new keenly-layered, politically-minded family drama.

The Book of Will

The Book of Will
Author: Lauren Gunderson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822237725

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

The Time of the Cuckoo

The Time of the Cuckoo
Author: Arthur Laurents
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573616723

Leona Samish, a single American woman of a "certain age" takes a long-planned European vacation from her job as a secretary and finds herself in a pensione in Venice, Italy. At a street market, she meets the handsome proprietor Renato DiRossi, entering into a casual flirtation which turns into an affair. Her complacency is jolted when she discovers he is married, has several children and is quite happy with the arrangement as is. Long-dormant frustrations and anger come to the surface as Leona faces the harsh reality of this new found infatuation and her own romantic notions of love. Shirley Booth and later Katharine Hepburn ("Summertime") played the leading role.