Albert Innaurato's Books

THE STORY: The scene is a rundown, cluttered apartment in the Italian-American section of South Philadelphia, where Berto, deserted by his southern-born wife some ten years earlier, is preparing a family party for his father, Oreste, who is paying

THE STORY: The play takes place in the backyard of adjoining houses in South Philadelphia: one house occupied by Fran Geminiani, a laborer, and his son, Francis, a Harvard student; the other by a boisterous, earthy divorcee named Bunny and her fat,

THE STORY: The scene is a loft in the Soho section of Manhattan, where a blocked writer named Bartholomew Dante (but called Beatrice) has fled to escape his wife of fourteen years and to come to terms with his art and his homosexuality. But his eag

THE STORY: Using the characters and events of The Brothers Karamazov as a springboard, the play becomes a lampoon not only of Dostoyevsky but of western culture and literature in general. Dotted with literary allusions and intellectual jibes, it po

THE STORY: The place is the rehearsal hall in the theatre complex of a large midwestern university. The time is 1970, and as those assembled in the hall proceed with rehearsal of a student play, a violent race riot is taking place outside the locke

THE STORY: Benno Blimpie is an enormously fat and desperately unhappy young man who is literally eating himself to death. Rejected by his coarse family, and a world which holds him in contempt, Benno watches bitterly as the history of his life is played out in scene after scene around him. His foul-mouthed, unloving mother; his gross, derisive father; his sex-obsessed grandfather, who courts disaster with a teenaged nymphet-all subject him to derision and scorn. Trapped beneath Benno's gross exterior there is a sensitive and feeling person, with needs that cry out for fulfillment. But he learns that a love of beauty is not enough and, trapped within his ugliness, he can only shut himself away and methodically eat himself into oblivion.

Gemini" is set at a backyard birthday party for a young man, Francis Geminiani, who has turned twenty-one. Family members, friends and neighbors are in attendance, and their dysfunctional interactions lend this comedy-drama its best moments."The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie" is the story of an overweight teen boy and the humilations his life is filled with, both at home and at school.

Book's by Albert Innaurato

Passione By Albert F. Innaurato

Passione By Albert F. Innaurato

Gemini

Gemini

Gemini

Gemini

Coming of Age in Soho

Coming of Age in Soho

The Idiots Karamazov

The Idiots Karamazov

Ulysses in Traction

Ulysses in Traction

The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

Gemini ; The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

Gemini ; The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

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