Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily

When Sometimes the Soul was first published, the New York Times book review said of Gioia Timpanelli's work that it offers simple lessons about the nature of beauty and the beauty of nature. Gary Snyder commented, She has the capacity to draw out the very depths of the power of myths and narrative and to take literature back to its sources before your eyes (and ears). With this recording, the listener is provided with the opportunity to hear the author read the graceful novellas that make up Sometimes the Soul. Her deceptively simple presentation is informed by her years of storytelling and brings alive the simple elegance of her work. These two finely crafted novellas expore, within a traditional framework, the lives of two highly untraditional women. While Timpanelli's stories are simple but not so simple, they reveal fiction's power to shape and transform our lives.