Rita Schiano
Auteur de Sweet Bitter Love
Œuvres de Rita Schiano
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Schiano, Rita
- Date de naissance
- 1955-04-20
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Miami University
Wells College - Professions
- editor
Membres
Critiques
"Painting The Invisible Man" is a story about Anna, a writer, who takes a journey into the past to uncover the truth about her father, Paulie Matteo. Paulie was brutally murdered in what looked to be a mob-style execution. Some gambling debts were the reason for Paulie's demise. Anna begins to look into her childhood and realizes that maybe her father was part of the mob. She remembers a particular car that used to park on her street. She painted her bicycle a different color every week to throw them off. She carried around a pellet gun and smoke bombs in her vest.
Anna starts researching the trial of the man who was accused of murdering her father is Angelo Capraro. Joey Casella, who just happens to have been Anna's first childhood crush, is accused of ordering the hit. She obtains what information she can from the library. With many questions still unanswered she calls her cousin Sophia and asks for a favor. Sophia's husband is Greg, the same man who is responsible for Joey's acquittal.
Will Anna get the answers she needs to move on in her life? Or will her father be a mystery forever?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Anna is an extremely likable character who I was able to connect with. It is a wonderful story of one woman's determination to get the answers she needs. I definitely recommend this book.… (plus d'informations)
Anna starts researching the trial of the man who was accused of murdering her father is Angelo Capraro. Joey Casella, who just happens to have been Anna's first childhood crush, is accused of ordering the hit. She obtains what information she can from the library. With many questions still unanswered she calls her cousin Sophia and asks for a favor. Sophia's husband is Greg, the same man who is responsible for Joey's acquittal.
Will Anna get the answers she needs to move on in her life? Or will her father be a mystery forever?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Anna is an extremely likable character who I was able to connect with. It is a wonderful story of one woman's determination to get the answers she needs. I definitely recommend this book.… (plus d'informations)
Fans of The Soprano's will find Painting The Invisible Man intriguing. Schiano reaches deep into the depths of her emotions to offer an inside look at what it's like to grow up in different kind of family.
(Okay, I'm biased because I wrote it. However, I do feel this is my best work. But, of course, don't take my word. Visit the publisher's press room at www.reededwards.com)
(Okay, I'm biased because I wrote it. However, I do feel this is my best work. But, of course, don't take my word. Visit the publisher's press room at www.reededwards.com)
Have you ever read a book that left you so full of emotion, you found it hard to discuss its contents? It’s not often a book renders me searching for words that adequately express my feelings, but “Painting the Invisible Man” has done just that.
Most novels I’d describe as easy-breezy reads. I enjoy them, love to discuss them, and then want to move on. But Rita Schiano’s book touched me in a place I rarely disclose to the public. The main character, Anna Matteo, hits a point in her life where she must come face to face with her past. Twenty years earlier, her father was murdered and she ran away and closed off a part of herself. Now, Anna stumbles across articles related to her father and she’s ready to go back and understand what happened the day her father was murdered.
As Anna follows the trail that exposes Paulie Matteo’s ties with the mob, she realizes she didn’t know her father at all. Anna says...
“In my attempt to paint the portrait of my Invisible Man, I realize that I will, at best, end up with a representation that is a semblance of my father. What led him ultimately down that path to hell I will never know. But what I have painted thus far—from memory, from talks with those who knew his life only through his death—was a portrait of a man whose heart was good, but whose soul was tainted.”
“What I did not realize, however, was that two other portraits would emerge. The first was a picture of a man I had drawn on my youth, only to discover now that I had not painted him with true colors. And I knew I couldn’t retouch this canvas from memory. I needed to see the subject again.”
To make this book stand out even more, the book is based on actual events in the author’s life. Rita Schiano speaks candidly with a group of Shelfari.com members,
“The story is influenced by the 1976 murder of my father. Like the character Anna, I was researching the archives of my hometown newspaper for a client, and I made a keying error. I accidentally charged ten articles instead of one to my credit card. After retrieving my client's news article, I began typing in names of people I knew that still lived in Syracuse. Why I typed my father's name, I'll never know.
Here's what I found....Thirty-seven articles from the 1990s that referenced my father. It wouldn't have been all that strange had my father not died in 1976.
The headline that caught my attention was one that mentioned FBI surveillance tapes of the man who was acquitted of my father's murder, bragging about getting away with murder twenty years before. At that moment I knew I had to explore this story.
We decided to position the book as contemporary historical fiction rather than as a memoir for this reason: After the James Frey debacle, memoir was a fearsome word to me. For much of the story I had to rely on my memory and the recollections of people involved with the trials. Fiction gave me the freedom to create a compelling story.”
Schiano's has a unique way of expressing emotion on paper, so much so that I wanted to read more of her books.
My Book Reviews: http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/… (plus d'informations)
Most novels I’d describe as easy-breezy reads. I enjoy them, love to discuss them, and then want to move on. But Rita Schiano’s book touched me in a place I rarely disclose to the public. The main character, Anna Matteo, hits a point in her life where she must come face to face with her past. Twenty years earlier, her father was murdered and she ran away and closed off a part of herself. Now, Anna stumbles across articles related to her father and she’s ready to go back and understand what happened the day her father was murdered.
As Anna follows the trail that exposes Paulie Matteo’s ties with the mob, she realizes she didn’t know her father at all. Anna says...
“In my attempt to paint the portrait of my Invisible Man, I realize that I will, at best, end up with a representation that is a semblance of my father. What led him ultimately down that path to hell I will never know. But what I have painted thus far—from memory, from talks with those who knew his life only through his death—was a portrait of a man whose heart was good, but whose soul was tainted.”
“What I did not realize, however, was that two other portraits would emerge. The first was a picture of a man I had drawn on my youth, only to discover now that I had not painted him with true colors. And I knew I couldn’t retouch this canvas from memory. I needed to see the subject again.”
To make this book stand out even more, the book is based on actual events in the author’s life. Rita Schiano speaks candidly with a group of Shelfari.com members,
“The story is influenced by the 1976 murder of my father. Like the character Anna, I was researching the archives of my hometown newspaper for a client, and I made a keying error. I accidentally charged ten articles instead of one to my credit card. After retrieving my client's news article, I began typing in names of people I knew that still lived in Syracuse. Why I typed my father's name, I'll never know.
Here's what I found....Thirty-seven articles from the 1990s that referenced my father. It wouldn't have been all that strange had my father not died in 1976.
The headline that caught my attention was one that mentioned FBI surveillance tapes of the man who was acquitted of my father's murder, bragging about getting away with murder twenty years before. At that moment I knew I had to explore this story.
We decided to position the book as contemporary historical fiction rather than as a memoir for this reason: After the James Frey debacle, memoir was a fearsome word to me. For much of the story I had to rely on my memory and the recollections of people involved with the trials. Fiction gave me the freedom to create a compelling story.”
Schiano's has a unique way of expressing emotion on paper, so much so that I wanted to read more of her books.
My Book Reviews: http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 54
- Popularité
- #299,230
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 2
Anna Matteo is a writer, who delves into her past looking for answers to her father's untimely death. This is a historical fiction novel, loosely based on true events.
Rita Schiano truly has a gift for writing, and captures the characters and time frames perfectly. I am italian, so that is another reason I enjoyed this story.
Painting the Invisible Man is a true glimpse of the life of Anna and her family in the 1970's, her relationship with her father, mother and brother, and the grown-up Anna; ready to face her fears and live her life without boundaries.
Read this book - you won't be disappointed.… (plus d'informations)