The Saint of Lost Things

8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches]. x + 317pp., including final Acknowledgments. Publisher’s purple and teal paper over boards, gold stamping on spine; photo-illustrated jacket. Book is Fine: seemingly unread. Jacket is fine: as new.

First Edition: signed by author. Italo-American novelist Castellani’s second novel opens the door to the Italian community in Wilmington, Delaware in the mid-1950s. His first novel, A Kiss from Maddalena, won the Massachusetts Book Award; his later novel, Leading Men, about the gay circle surrounding Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams in Italy, earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the artistic director of the Grub Street creative writing center in Boston.