Lost Hearts in Italy - Hardcover

Lee, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400061695 ISBN 13: 9781400061693

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Traveling to Rome to join her husband, Mira Ward has a fateful encounter with Zenin, an intriguing Italian billionaire whom she meets on the plane, and becomes caught up in an affair that exposes the cracks in her marriage and her own sense of self.

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Review:

‘A painstaking inquiry into an adulterous love affair and its aftermath.’ Guardian

‘The book’s curious polyphony lifts “Lost Hearts in Italy” above most comparable ventures into the Jamesian territory of Americans abroad.’ Observer

‘Lee writes movingly of that innocence, which once lost can never be recovered, of the price of betrayal and desire requited. Andrea Lee’s writing is beautifully measured with an eye for detail that is worthy of a Vogue stylist and her characters resonate with intelligence and worldly sophistication in this haunting novel.’ Irish Independent

‘Andrea Lee is the real thing. There is nothing more to say.’ Philip Roth

About the Author:

Andrea Lee was born in Philadelphia and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University. She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and her fiction and nonfiction writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. She is the author of Russian Journal, the novel Sarah Phillips, and the short story collection Interesting Women. She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400061695
• ISBN 13: 9781400061693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256