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The Memoir titled "I Wouldn`t Die" is getting a lot of press. |
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NewsreleaseDate:
2004-10-18
The LA.Times had their Staff Writer Catherine Saillant review
the recently published Memoir by Via Novi Press.The author
Franco Antonetti pours out his immigrant-coming-to-America story
in a 251-page self-published memoir,"I Wouldn`t Die."
There`s his arrival from Italy as an impoverished child and his determined rise up the rungs of American business.There`s tales of first love and lost opportunities.And there`s a funny recounting of his first day in the United
States involving Ellis Island immigration officers,30 feet of sausage and
some very loose pants.
Though good with tale,Antonetti,60, wasn`t shooting for bestseller lists when he wrote his autobiography in six months.The Arizona retiree wrote it mostly for his children and grandchildren.
"Once the money is gone," said the father of three,"it`s Big deal,who`s Papa?"
But a book lastsforever-even if it`s a bad one."
The real adventurers,like Antonetti,go it alone.He hadn`t thought about memoir until he reconnected last year with a high school buddy who is a writer,Antonetti said.As they shared what had happened to them through the years,the friend encouraged Antonetti to get his story in print.
Always gung-ho,Antonetti sat down in August 2003 and started writing.He tapped out the chapters on a home computer.
"I made it a job,"he said."I`d get up in the morning and work on it for 10 to 12 hours a day and think nothing of it.And when I wasn`t writing,I was thinking of sequences and making notes."
The resulting paperback,published in May,tells how Antonetti escaped starvation and several brushes with death as a child in wartime Italy.On the day in 1954 that he and his family arrived at Ellis Island, his mother insisted that he smuggle 30 feet of dried Italian sausage in his pants.
"I guess she thought America did not have any,so she brought her own,"
Antonetti wrote."
"In no time, the inspector was pulling sausage out of me and another guard came to see what was going on," he wrote."We attracted a small crowd of guards and they could not believe that the links kept on coming."
Luckily,Antonetti ensuing years in America were less humiliating as he married his high school sweetheart,worked for Mack Trucks and prospered.But his book doesn`t shy away from trauma, recounting his first wife`s fatal car crash and his children`s struggles with money and marriage.
Writing about his life was a healthy experience,he said."It was hard work,but I feel better for it,"he said."It`s like going to confession.You spit all this stuff out and then you feel better."
That was the review from The LA Times.
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