Italian Fever
Published on 1. July 2004
Audio
CD-Audio
978-0-7528-6712-0 (ISBN)
Description
Thirty-something New Yorker Lucy Stark leads a quiet, solitary life working for a bestselling - but remarkably untalented writer. When he dies at a villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Italy to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens her self-reliance and her very sense of reality. In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin evokes a modern woman's headlong tumble into a world where E.M. Forster's angels feared to tread. Smart and sophisticated, this novel takes us on a journey from which we return, like Lucy, utterly changed.
Reviews / Votes
Haunting and atmospheric, this is read with understated aplomb by Francine Brody BOOKS QUARTERLY Smart and sophisticated, this novel takes us on a journey from which we return, like Lucy, utterly changed OPTIONS XIIMore details
Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Abridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Duration
Dauer: 360 min
Weight
211 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-6712-0 (9780752867120)
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Persons
Valerie Martin is the author of two collections of short fiction and six novels, including Italian Fever, The Great Divorce and Mary Reilly [the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story, from the viewpoint of a housemaid, which was filmed with Julia Roberts and John Malkovich. Her most recent book is a non-fiction work about St Francis of Assisi: Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St Francis. She lives in upstate New York.