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"A delectable comedy of manners." --Boston Globe
The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better days. Among the Ridolfi, only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality. But it's a vitality matched by innocence--a dangerous combination, to herself and to all who love her. Chiara sets her heart on the bull-headed Salvatore, a brilliant young doctor from the south who resolved long ago to be emotionally dependent on no one. Stymied, she calls on her resourceful English girlfriend, Barney, to help her make the impossible match. And so ensues a comedy of errors, in which guileless lovers, with the best of intentions, considerable charm, and the kindest of instincts, succeed in making one another thoroughly and astonishingly miserable. "An exquisite mosaic, where every tiny piece is part of a world." --A. S. Byatt, Threepenny Review"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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"Clever and dangerously beguiling." The Los Angeles Times
"As intoxicating as a shot of aged brandy . . . a true sensualist's feeling for Italy." The Washington Post "The fullest and richest of her novels." Time MagazineAbout the Author
PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for The Blue Flower, the Booker Prize for Offshore, and three of her novels -- The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring -- were short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0544359461
- ISBN 13 9780544359468
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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