L Is for Lion : Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir.
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2013.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Italian/American culture.
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Table of Contents:
- L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
- Contents
- Prologue: The Blue Suitcase
- Part One: Bronx Tomboy
- Eat with Guys You Trust
- Breakfast Is to Coat the Stomach
- The X
- Stoop
- The Return of the Rust
- A Good Eater
- The Tin Ceiling
- Sidewalk
- Licking Batteries
- Teaspoons and Heatpipes
- Kitchen Bird
- Kindergarten, Boot Camp: 1968
- Sister Rosaria
- Quicksand
- Lasagna Vows
- Ravioli, Homing Pigeons, and Teletype Machines
- Grandpop, the Hook, and the Eyebrow
- Made of Rubber
- Sister Giuseppina
- Sister ErcolinaPlaying War
- Lead Pipe, Montezuma, Icicle
- Hand to Hand
- The Return of the Lasagna
- Street
- How to Catch a Flyball in Oncoming Traffic
- The Names of Horses
- Rook to Queen Four
- Burning Rubber and Penmanship
- Trestles and Love
- Silence, Violence
- The Blue Angel
- Bronx County Family Courthouse
- Parkchester Poseidon Adventure
- The Lady in Black
- Fast Break
- Part Two: Educationa Girl
- The Temporary Apartment
- Permanent Wave
- Useless Expertise
- Hunger Beats Agida
- Sistemazione
- Walk Softly but Carry a Big PockabookLunch Is to Clean the Blood
- Slow, Loud, and Clear
- Asthma, Green Money, and the Feast
- Brakeman
- Outfield Greens
- My Mother, the Plaintiff
- Aunt Patty�s Bullfight
- You�re Just Like Your Father
- Junkie Pride
- Mary Perry
- College Entrance
- Strike One
- Fontanelle Aurelius
- The Miracle Worker of 233rd Street
- Part Three: Kimosabe
- The Best Place to Have Cancer
- Room 621
- Shake �n Bake
- The Fastigium
- Dope and Demerol
- The Pipeline
- Truckstop Paranoia
- ChemistryAmara
- Brazil Upside Down
- Belly Up
- Overheating
- Triple Boiling Point
- Eat �Til You Sweat
- The Tumor Board
- The Radioactive Man Says, “Don�t Give Up the Ship!�
- Thoracotomy
- One Mis-sip-pi
- Magnetic Lace
- Lesbianism, Suicide, or the Nunnery
- How to Wake Up a Marine in a Foxhole
- Red Death
- Interventions
- Falling and Flying
- Civilian Life Sucks
- Deep Bell
- Part Four: How to Cook a Heart
- Wallid Walla Bint
- Equator Crossings
- Bronx Italian Butch Freedom
- Never Come Out in a Lincoln ContinentalA Nightclub Named Devotion “Roma o Morte!�
- Vrrooooom!
- “Cosa Mangia Oggi!�
- My Mother�s Aorta
- a�Schapett
- Shave My Head
- Enter Audrey Lauren Kindred
- Rachele�s Pocketbook Fritatta
- How to Poke a Guy�s Eyes Out
- How to Cook a Heart
- Part Five: Annie�s Parts
- Mr. Fixit
- Six Places to Buy Milk
- My Father, Marconi, and Me
- Sciamannin�
- Horizontal People
- Radioactive Feast
- Limoncello and the Black Bra
- Garlic, the Ave Maria, and the Blue Leg