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    <body><![CDATA[Gay Talese is a seasoned American journalist and writer. This book is about his family roots. It took him 10 years to research the history of his family from pre World War I to World War II. The details are very rich, straightforward without having too much peppers.<br/><br/>Talese's writing is as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70324652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very detailed memoir of Talese's family in Italy and their (some of the family members') subsequent immigration to the US. I did like it and I do recommend it but I also have to say it suffers from the same flaw that many biographies/ memoirs do - it is too detailed, too many historical de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64885377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating book, a memoir about Italian immigration.  Talese intertwines his family's history with Italian history dating back to the middle ages, and more recent history, including a fascinating piece about Mussolini.  It reads like a combination novel and history book...I couldn't put i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49015265">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this man's writing style! Classic, full bodied, well constructed story of his family and the story of Italy and it's people, conquerors and hero's. It's  625 pages and I intentionally read only 10 pages a night,I already know I don't want it to end.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gay Talese's personal saga from his ancestors in Italy to his American immigrant grandparents, to his growing up in Ocean City, New Jersey.  But it is no less a wonderful story than his other works.  He is a good story-teller.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wonderful book.  Gay Talese, a well-known author that I had never read before, traces his family's origins from southern Italy to the US.  The writing is excellent and the stories and anecdotes he relates give proof to the old adage &quot;truth is stranger than fiction&quot;.  There is also a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46945977">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book one summer while in Ocean City, NJ where Mr. Talese grew up. It was interesting to think of the city during the early 1900's. Good book. Starts a little slow, but picks up quickly.]]></body>
    
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