by Mary Mackey · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804341123
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«Una grande passione» is the novel by Mary Mackey published by Mondadori in paperback (309 pages, in Italian).
The story centres on a young dancer trying to make her way in the world of dance while facing personal and emotional challenges. In the demanding world of ballet, the novel addresses ambition, sacrifice and the search for identity, as well as the pressure of an environment where success conditions everything.
The edition dates from 1989 and belongs to Mondadori's Oscar bestsellers collection, number 181.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories about artistic vocation, effort and passion within the world of dance.
Mary Lou Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of eight collections of poetry and fourteen novels, including A Grand Passion and The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring, four sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe. In 2012, her sixth collection of poetry, Sugar Zone, won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Another collection, The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2018, won a 2018 Women’s Spirituality Book Award from the California Institute of Integral Studies; and the 2019 Eric Hoffer Small Press Award for the best book published by a small press. Her first novel, Immersion, was the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press. Long concerned with environmental issues, Mackey frequently writes about the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon. In the early 1970s, as Professor of English and Writer-In-Residence at California State University, Sacramento, she was instrumental in the founding of the CSUS Women's Studies Program and the CSUS English Department Graduate Creative Writing Program. From 1989-1992, she served as President of the West Coast Branch of PEN American Center involving herself in PEN's international defense of persecuted writers.
