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Mar 05, 2003 Set in the Valle del Sole, a village nestled in the folds of the Italian Apennines, Lives of the Saints tells the story of young Vittorio Innocente Lives Of The Saints: Nino Ricci: 430: Amazon.com: Books. Read 'The Lives of the Saints III' by S. Baring-Gould available from Rakuten Kobo. Sign up today and get $5 off your first purchase. Revised with Introduction and Additional Lives of English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints, and a full Index to the Ent.
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When young Vittorio Innocente’s mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one sees the blue-eyed stranger leaving except for Vittorio. He struggles to keep his mother’s secret but secrets in a small village are hard to keep, and while Cristina’s belly gradually grows under her loose dresses, they find themselves shunned by their superstitious neighbours.
A classic of Canadian literature, Lives of the Saints has earned many distinctions since it was originally published in 1990. It was a national bestseller for seventy-five weeks, received the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize.
In England it won the Betty Trask Award and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, in the U.S. Was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and in France was an Oeil de la letter Selection of the National Libraries Association. It was also adapted into a miniseries starring Sophia Loren. Nino Ricci was born in Leamington, Ontario, in 1959.
His first novel, Lives of the Saints (1990), won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize. The novel was also a long-time national bestseller, and was followed by the highly acclaimed In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize. His most recent novel is Testament (2002).
Ricci holds a B.A. Gomez peer instances. From York University and an M.A. From Concordia University. He is a past president of PEN Canada.
Extraordinary and dazzling.— Times Literary Supplement What really happened to Vittorio’s mother that day in the stable? That she’d been bitten by a snake was clear enough: the swelling in the ankle proved it. But that other swelling, the one that led eventually to his mother’s long, loose dresses, to those dark, cold stares from the other villagers – what strange thing could be taking shape there in his mother’s belly, and what doom would it carry them all to? Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award Winner of the F.G. ☛Sleep makes the Toronto Star's ☛ sleep site on Sleep ☛ describes Sleep as a 'dark but gripping read' ☛ calls Sleep 'a page-turner bound to please' ☛ Sleep ends first week at No.
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