Stefano: 1425 books

A handbook for Progressive Rock (Version 1.2.1). “My new book could be the perfect guide for girlfriends, wives, or friends of any progressive rock enthusiast... it's not mainly for the prog rock expert, but rather people whose curiosity is piqued by this “genre” and who have never examined...

Step into the soul of a legend. Increasingly anxious Elvis breaks free from the confines of Graceland on a crazy mission to meet President Nixon and score a Federal Drug Agent’s badge. For the first time in his life Elvis leaves his entourage behind as he hits the road on his own. Will he...

Walk a thousand miles in Elvis' shoes. It's 1970. It's Christmas. And Elvis Presley is jack of it. He's had enough of the songs, the fans, the girls, the guys, everything. He flees Graceland on a wild, manic quest to meet President Nixon before Colonel Parker can haul his ass back to Memphis....

By kind request. It is a year since the well-received book Progressive Rock 2. Boundary Lines. Journalist Stefano Orlando Puracchio is back with his new book Progressive Rock 3 By Kind Request. The title alones indicates a great response and an awaited comeback. Thanks to the excellent feedback from...

A provocative and entertaining look at the mafia, the media, and the (un)making of Italian Americans. As evidenced in countless films, novels, and television portrayals, the Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our...

All roads lead somewhere—some lead you off a cliff, some lead you to a dead end, some lead places you would never want to go, and some lead you closer to life’s meaning, but in the midst of this maze of pathways is there a road that can lead us to meaning itself? Using the Apostles’ Creed as...

What would you do for a million dollars? Risk averse expatriate life insurance agent Bob Proctor has to steal back the head of famed American legal thriller author to claim a million dollar bounty from a retired Mexican drug lord. He soon finds himself way out of his depth on the back roads...

This short story is taken from the script of the homonymous show, for large stick marionettes and puppets on black by Habanera Teatro, produced in 2009, of which also shows several pictures.     The dialogues have remained virtually unchanged and the descriptive part is trying...

This is the story of a long journey whose aim was to find a way to restore an imagination to all those children who watch too much television. It is inspired by the tradition of the Tuscan Befana [an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on the eve before Epiphany, 5th January]...

ROMANZO BREVE (91 pagine) - NARRATIVA - Venti brevi racconti per capire perché, nonostante le difficoltà, il dolore e la morte, ogni alpinista punterà sempre all'euforia della cima. Che cosa accade quando bellezza e morte, coraggio e paura, nostalgia e speranza si intrecciano nella danza...

In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...

Si vestiva di silenzio ed usciva di casa nelle prime ore del mattino. Scendeva lungo il viale - le mani giunte sopra la macchina fotografica che teneva all'altezza del petto. Poi - giunto all'angolo della strada - si fermava. Appoggiava il corpo minuto contro le mura di un palazzo. Il suo nome era...

It is the war the predominant theme of this collection of poems. The war that annihilates the lives. The war that tears apart the bodies and memory. The war that divides the loves and the people. The war that destroys everything and sows death and terror. The war against which every day you resist....

"Two suitcases and the telephone numbers of two friends of friends: this was what I was carrying when I landed in India on October 22, 1998. What an irony in the fact that just a few years earlier, while boarding a plane from New Delhi to Rome, I had promised to myself not to go back to India,...