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Flavia Ida` was born and raised in Arena di Calabria, Italy, and studied the Classics and European Literature at the University of Naples. At 28 she moved to San Francisco, where she learned English by watching children's television programs with her 4-year-old son Adam. In 1984 she graduated summa cum laude in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she also obtained her Master's and taught Creative Writing. Her poetry has appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the winner of the Emily Dickinson Award sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. "The Iron and the Loom" is her first novel. Her second novel, "The Names of Heaven" is due out in summer 2014, also from Hunt Press of Los Angeles. ...more

The Iron and the Loom

very simply: 'The Iron and the Loom' is a good book that has received great reviews in the USA, in Italy and elsewhere; there is my translation in Italian, also very favorably welcomed by readers who know Italian - check it out!
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Published on March 11, 2014 20:05
Average rating: 4.35 · 17 ratings · 6 reviews · 11 distinct works
The Iron & The Loom

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The Last Speck of the World

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The Names of Heaven

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Mercy

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Children of the Wrong Time

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Il ferro e il telaio

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L'ultimo granello del mondo

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Figli del tempo sbagliato

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“Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.”
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“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.”
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“Writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously; they are only daydreamers who daydream better than most.”
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“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.”
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Flavia Idà rats, why do my quotes appear twice and I can't seem to be able to edit and/or erase them?? Portrait of the author as a Goodreads tyro :(


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