An Italian Wife
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family.
An Italian Wife opens in turn-of-the-century Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love.
Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs. And her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s.
Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Ann Hood. (2014). An Italian Wife. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ann Hood. 2014. An Italian Wife. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ann Hood, An Italian Wife. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ann Hood. An Italian Wife. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Italian Wife
- crossRefId
- 1903907
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/AEF/E61/5E/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/AEF/E61/5E/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483021621
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483021621
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Ann Hood
- id
- aefe615e-3024-4b2b-82ac-4f156e9e8c84
- title
- An Italian Wife
- starRating
- 2.9
- dateAdded
- 2014-09-05T14:32:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=1903907
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 08:44:58
- fileName: AnItalianWife_9781483021638_1903907
- partCount: 9
- fileSize: 252070558
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538598870
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483021621
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 9/2/2014
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1903907-AnItalianWife.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 08:45:02
- fileName: ItalianWife9781483021638
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 252023322
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538598870
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483021621
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 9/2/2014
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1903907-AnItalianWife.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Hood, Ann
- bioText:
Ann Hood is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestselling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and three memoirs.
- name: Ann Hood
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Campbell, Cassandra
- name: Cassandra Campbell
- imprint
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC
- publishDate
- 2014-09-02T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- An Italian Wife
- fullDescription
From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family.
An Italian Wife opens in turn-of-the-century Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love.
Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs. And her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s.
Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Elizabeth Berg, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author
- content: "I admire this graceful and intimate writer for her literary sleight of hand: you don't so much read about her characters as you inhabit them."
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
June 16, 2014
Hood (The Obituary Writer) crafts a stark tale of loss and longing with story of one woman’s life in Italy and America. Wed at 15 to an ambitious landowner 11 years her senior, Josephine Rimaldi emigrates to Rhode Island. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she takes comfort in what’s most familiar: too many children, iron-clad tradition, and a demanding church. The only passion Josephine finds is an affair that ends with an infant daughter given up for adoption, a loss that haunts both her and her lover. With heartbreaking regularity, each succeeding generation yearns for a better life but surrenders to disappointment: Josephine’s son Carmine, whose stint in WWII leaves him shell-shocked and adrift; widowed granddaughter Francie, who’s shunned by suburban wives and wooed by their husbands; the granddaughter that Josephine never knew, love-starved Penny, whose relationship with her mother, Martha, falls victim to an obsessive search for Josephine; and dreamer great-granddaughter Aida, who runs away from her family to a vague, unsettled future. On her 100th birthday, Josephine does not embrace the children and life she nurtured, but the “things we did not have, the love that broke our hearts, the child we lost…”
- popularity
- 224
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/aefe615e-3024-4b2b-82ac-4f156e9e8c84/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- aefe615e-3024-4b2b-82ac-4f156e9e8c84
- starRating
- 2.9
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/AEF/E61/5E/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/AEF/E61/5E/{AEFE615E-3024-4B2B-82AC-4F156E9E8C84}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- publishDateText
- 09/02/2014
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483021652
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family.
An Italian Wife opens in turn-of-the-century Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love.
Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs. And her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s.
Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a...
- sortTitle
- Italian Wife
- crossRefId
- 1903907
- publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC000000
- description: Fiction / General
- code: FIC044000
- description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
- code: FIC045000
- description: Fiction / Family Life / General