My Journey with Mother Rosa Antonio Termine

My Journey with Mother Rosa

Author: Antonio Termine

Publisher: Red Willow Publishing

Publication Date: 01 September, 2011

ISBN: 9781936539406

Pages:

Subjects: Biographies

Available as: , E-Book - EPUB, 978-1-936539-40-6

Description:

This is a creative biography bringing examples together of a literary memoir, a personal essay, and literary journalism which make up all three of the main forms in the genre. I have included scenes, descriptions, dialogues and flashbacks, in the hope of conveying a vivid description of events that happened, where perhaps in part, the story could be phased into a sacred biography as a spiritual journey emerged.Written with a true Australian flavor, I have incorporated a distinct and individual narrative voice to the story, allowing the reader to visualize events, characters and settings. This will be a valuable read to those who want to recall their association with their own family and heritage, and to learn about human nature in general.This book will appeal to schools, colleges and libraries with sections on pre and post World War II, displaying quiet achievers from that era.This creative non-fiction is fact-based writing that is compelling and hopefully not diminished by the passage of time. At heart, it has an interest in enduring human values. It is story-telling through the revelation of characters and plot, and a narrative stance that is original, humble, distinctive and quirky.The many light-hearted and sometimes harrowing experiences and challenges endured by Rosa, Giovabattista and their four boys should fill the gap, and draw inspiration also with many veterans and women married to veterans, who have lived through the early World War 2 years and beyond. The writing of this biography/memoir was an act of courage for me. I not only had to put together imagination and memory to take me from the past to the present, but I was torn between some disloyalty to my Mother, knowing I had to tell her story as she instructed, and also knowing it was my story, to tell it in my own way.