Mark Ciabattari is the author of DREAMS OF AN IMAGINARY NEW YORKER NAMED RIZZOLI, THE LITERAL TRUTH: RIZZOLI EATS THE APPLE OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, Clay Creatures, and PRELUDES TO HISTORY.
Fiction. Italian American Studies. "... Ciabattari brims with brio in this fanciful, cannily humorous look at the jungles of darkest Manhattan. Twenty-one brief 'dreams' or vignettes introduce Rizzoli, a modern Everyman who tries to do his work, ret...
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Fiction. Italian American Studies. "In the second collection of vignettes featuring middle-aged New Yorker Rizzoli, Ciabattari skillfully captures the nature of dreams, using a mixture of reality and surrealism to reveal our common fears and desires...
Fiction. "With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed."—Publishers Weekly
"An old hand at postmodern literary play, Ciabattari is one writer who could claim charter membership in the Pirandello and Calvino schools of literary humor, and if his first three Rizzoli books were not sufficiently persuasive, you’d have no choic...