{"product_id":"neorealist-in-winter-9781637680780","title":"Neorealist in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Neorealist in Winter: Stories \u003c\/i\u003eby Salvatore Pane, selected by Venita Blackburn as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Fiction Prize, is a collection of eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Utilizing methods of speculative, historical, and postmodern storytelling, Pane grapples with legacies of immigration, poverty, toxic masculinity, and moral failures, while focusing on working-class issues, family drama, and PTSD. Following eleven Italian narrators, Pane builds a cast of cinematic characters across disparate times and places—a struggling director attends a house party in the la dolce vita of 1960s Rome, gangsters chase a low-level lottery runner in coal valley Scranton, a woman contemplates experimental surgery to purge memories of her childhood trauma in Minnesota, and a pro wrestling promoter descends into self-denial through his autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salvatore Pane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278465478907,"sku":"9781637680780","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_32d506da-7a0b-44be-8d0e-73785df0a60d.jpg?v=1771237666","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/neorealist-in-winter-9781637680780","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}