Home Is an Island: A Novel

by Alfred Lewis, Devin Nunes (Other)

Overview

Originally published by Random House in 1951, Home Is an Island is an autobiographical novel about boyhood on the Azores during the early twentieth century. Set in the mid-Atlantic, halfway between Portugal and the United States, Home Is an Island captures the simple, pastoral life in a village of the Old World where the popular imagination is permeated by the wonders of America and its promise of wealth and opportunity. This book will appeal to readers interested in America in the literary imagination, island literature, Portuguese-American literature, and Diaspora studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933227368
Publisher:	Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Publication date:	04/10/2012
Series:	Portuguese in the Americas Series , #17
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

ALFRED LEWIS (1902–1977), born on the mid-Atlantic island of Flores, immigrated to California in 1922. Having learned English only after arriving in America, he went on to study law and became a municipal judge in the San Joaquin Valley. Lewis was the first Portuguese-American writing from an ethnic perspective to claim the attention of the general reading public. He is the author of Sixty Acres and a Barn: A Novel.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Congressman Devin Nunes
Preface — Frank F. Sousa
Home Is an Island

What People are Saying About This

Patricia Highsmith

"One does not often find a novel that reads like a poem, that tells a simple story in a simple prose, and yet is heroic, a novel of importance."

Editorial Reviews

Lewis’ style and quality of the narrative is most refreshing. Some of his descriptive passages, in the pellucid simplicity and rich imagery, ring with the lyricism of poetry.”—New York Times Book Review

“There is about this novel a fine, tender, sensitive, spiritual quality, a quietness and repose quite in keeping with the simple, honest and straightforward lives of the villagers. . . . Well recommended.”—Library Journal

“It is the kind of book that is delightful to read.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune

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