Pascal D'Angelo

Pascal D'Angelo: Son of Italy is a memoir written by Pascal D'Angelo, chronicling his life growing up in Italy and his eventual immigration to the United States. The book begins with D'Angelo's childhood in Calabria, Italy, where he was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father's untimely death. Despite facing poverty and hardship, D'Angelo found solace in his love for soccer and his close-knit community. As he grew older, D'Angelo became increasingly disillusioned with the political and economic climate in Italy, and eventually decided to immigrate to the United States in search of a better life. The memoir details his struggles to adjust to life in a new country, including learning English and navigating the cultural differences. Throughout the book, D'Angelo reflects on his experiences with humor and humility, offering a unique perspective on the immigrant experience. He also discusses the importance of family, community, and hard work in achieving success and happiness. Pascal D'Angelo: Son of Italy is a poignant and inspiring memoir that offers a glimpse into the life of an Italian immigrant and the challenges and triumphs he faced in pursuit of the American Dream. Extremely Rare Reprint Of The First Edition With The Carl Van Doren Introduction. An Account Of How The Author Left His Work With A Pick And Shovel To Become A Poet. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles against every disadvantage." In his narrative of his fruitless labor as a "pick and shovel" worker in America, D'Angelo, who immigrated from the Abruzzi region of Italy, describes the harsh, often inhumane working conditions that immigrants had to endure at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, interested in more than just material success in America, D'Angelo quit working as a laborer to become a poet. He began submitting his poetry to some of America's most prestigious literary and cultural journals until he finally succeeded. But in his quest for acceptance, D'Angelo unwittingly exposed the complexities of assimilation. Like the works of many other immigrant writers at the time, D'Angelo's autobiography is a criticism of some of the era's most important social themes. Kenneth Scambray's afterword is an analysis of the complexities of this multifaceted autobiographical voice, which has been read as a simplistic immigrant narrative of struggle and success. Guernica's edition of Son of Italy is its first English reprint since its original publication in 1924.