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Boy Destined to America
Author: Adolph Caso

Adolfo wrote this book in 1956, as a challenge to Professor Holmes, who, in his creative writing course, made the following recommendations to would-be authors: 1. Write about things you know intimately. 2. Write about things within your reach. 3. Remember, grammar can be corrected; a good story is not generally easy to fabricate. Having come to... more » America in 1947, not knowing much English, Adolfo took the challenge of his beloved Professor. Using an Olivetti 22 typewriter, and while working as an assistant manager in a Brigham ice cream store, he began typing to tell how he survived World War II: how he and his mother fared during those trying times when he got to see his brother Chris, who had survived the Battle of the Bulge, as an American soldier; and, how it was growing up with schools closed. All the while, he and his mother had to live with his paralyzed grandfather in a family home adjacent to a highway connecting the cities of Foggia and Naples?the road that saw invasions by Germans and then by the Allies themselves. As a boy, he saw many battles: by air with the Tuskegee Airmen, by artillery whose barrages flew overhead, and by the American infantry primarily--he saw for the first time soldiers from Morocco, and black soldiers from America. Finally, he talks about his mother?s preparation to leave Italy for America, where he would join his brother Chris and his two sisters, Luisa and Gilda, and meet for the first time, his father, Raffaele, a man not on good terms with his wife and children. Against all odds, Adolfo completed the manuscript of more than 300 pages, and put it away for a later revision. However, he forgot about it. In the summer of 2016, by pure accident, he discovered among other writings he had forgotten about. In reading his own story, he became fascinated by his vivid descriptions let alone the story itself. His wife, Margaret also read and found the story remarkable, not necessarily for its grammar, but for individuals such as Prisca, the mother, Anna marrying Alberto, the grandfathers--Crescenzo and Gabriele, and so many others interesting characters. As for the grammar, it reflects the writing of a boy in the process of learning English?to show off that he was learning a new language. His malapropisms stand out: spaventuous from the Italian spaventoso (frightful), lachrimous from lacrimoso (tearfull). In some ways, Adolfo--who completed first grade only in Italy--now in America after having skipped six years of school, he was inventing his own language. That he earned degrees from Northeastern and Harvard, and became a Colonel in the Army may speak to his native intelligence and willingness to work hard and on a continuous basis. About eighty three years old, he is publishing his forgotten first book he wrote in 1956 and publishing it in 2017.

ISBN-13: 9780828326445
ISBN-10: 0828326444
Publication Date: 11/5/2016
Pages: 294
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Branden Books
Book Type: Paperback
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