Ann Hood's Coney Island Dreams, exclusive for Kindle, follows Carmine Rimaldi, a young man who had everything. No one could understand Carmine would leave home for Coney Island. In his hometown, a small village of Italian immigrants in the middle of Rhode Island, no one saw what Carmine saw - that beyond this place lay opportunity. To Carmine, Coney Island was ocean and beach and glittering lights, and all of it was calling to him. This was in the summer of 1918. He was about to turn 18 years old and had just gotten engaged to Anna Zito, arguably the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood. But then there was Coney Island, and Eva Peretsky, and her slender hips and long legs, and her breasts that seemed to be fighting the fabric that held them in, and her high heels. And red lipstick. And then there was the war, and Carmine's best friend Angelo Mazzonni, and the strange day that Angelo's head had exploded. Opened up like a melon, spitting gray juice and pieces of bone and flesh all over Carmine.
Ann Hood is the author of 12 books, including the bestselling novel, The Knitting Circle, and the memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her other novels include: Waiting to Vanish (Bantam, 1988), Three-Legged Horse (Bantam, 1989), Something Blue (Bantam, 1991), Places to Stay the Night (Doubleday, 1993), The Properties of Water (Doubleday, 1995), and Ruby (Picador, 1998). She has also written a memoir, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time (Picador, 1999); a book on the craft of writing, Creating Character Emotions (Story Press, 1998); and a collection of short stories, An Ornithologist's Guide to Life (Norton, 2004). Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in Providence, RI with her husband and their children. Her new novel, The Red Thread, was published in May 2010 by WW Norton.
Ann Hood is the author of 12 books, including the bestselling novel, The Knitting Circle, and the memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten non fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her other novels include: Waiting to Vanish (Bantam, 1988), Three-Legged Horse (Bantam, 1989), Something Blue (Bantam, 1991), Places to Stay the Night (Doubleday, 1993), The Properties of Water (Doubleday, 1995), and Ruby (Picador, 1998). She has also written a memoir, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time (Picador, 1999); a book on the craft of writing, Creating Character Emotions (Story Press, 1998); and a collection of short stories, An Ornithologist's Guide to Life (Norton, 2004). Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in Providence, RI with her husband and their children. Her new novel, The Red Thread, was published in May 2010 by WW Norton.
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