THE LITTLE SAILOR, A ROMANTIC THRILLER

From the author: "Portraits of the women who reared and educated a boy known as the little sailor and whom I have loved ever since."

"Like most of Valerio's narrative fiction, 'The Little Sailor'
alchemically combines personal and popular cultural histories; but unlike
the earlier work, this opus resolves the logic and emotion of its
protagonist's episodic memory in a linear plot, transmuting the Little
Sailor's childhood experience of his community (particularly its women) in
the first section, 'Brooklyn, Rome,' into the action of second section,
'The Bensonhurst Pigeon,' a whimsical adaptation of Hammett's and Huston's
The Maltese Falcon."--(Professor G. Guida, CUNY)

"What's unique about this work is how this master storyteller concocts and serves the prose that works literary magic. This is nothing short of what I can only describe as gourmet writing. That's how carefully this writer chooses his words. The pleasure you'll extract from this writing comes from savoring lean sentences that hold the weight of paragraphs such as: In the late afternoon, amid gulls and marsh smells of sea salt and clams and crabs, the most beautiful woman the Little Sailor's father had ever seen walks along Shelter Island's Silver Beach." It all results in images that will remain with you like powerful photographs--an avocation Valerio took up not too long ago." Prof. F. Gardaphe

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