I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: November 7, 1942 |
“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
“If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.”