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Lives of the Saints is a novel by Nino Ricci. The author's first book, it forms the first part of a trilogy. The other two novels are In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone. Lives of the Saints was first published in 1990 and was the winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for fiction.
Lives of the Saints | Nino Ricci. Extraordinary and dazzling.— Times Literary Supplement. What really happened to Vittorio’s mother that day in the stable? That she’d been bitten by a snake was clear enough: the swelling in the ankle proved it.
1. Jan. 1990 · Lives of the Saints is a historical fiction novel written by Nino Ricci. It is a powerful narrative of superstation and beliefs in this coming of age story and immigrant story.
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Ricci's first novel Lives of the Saints was a critical and commercial success. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction and a Betty Trask Award. It forms a trilogy with Ricci's next two novels, In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997).
NINO RICCI's first novel, Lives of the Saints, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize and was made into a motion picture starring Sophia Loren.
Lives of the Saints. Nino Ricci. McClelland & Stewart, Oct 6, 2015 - Fiction - 208 pages. When young Vittorio Innocente’s mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one...
National BestsellerA New York Times Best BookWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionWinner of the Books in Canada First Novel AwardWinner of the F.G. Bressani PrizeWinner of the Betty Trask AwardWinner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial PrizeFirst published thirty years ago, Lives of the Saints moves to Anchor CanadaWhat really happened to Vittorio's mother that day in the stable?
