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Synopsis
A British expatriate presents a novel set in her adopted city of Rome, where the wife of an industrialist struggles to prove that she and her husband, who died in a terrorist bombing, are not members of the leftist Red Brigades.
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"Begin with a bang", Amanda Prantera's narrator Juliet More advises herself, and indeed she does: with the bang which claims the life of her husband, Italian industrialist Lorenzo Gherardi. But it's the last explosion in the book, as Juliet quietly starts to unravel the mystery of her husband's death: why was Lorenzo at the wheel of a Fiat van in the middle of the night, apparently cradling a bomb in his lap? While the slimy investigating coroner Carosi is insinuating that Lorenzo was a left-wing terrorist, Juliet grabs at the idea he was murdered by neo-Fascists. And while enduring the official investigation, Juliet has to cope with her larger-than-life and typically Italian mother-in-law Elvira ...Signora Giulietta is an endearingly uncertain guide to the strange events in her life. While she travels across Europe in the wake of the tragedy, we shadow the path of a woman who loses not only her husband, but all her social bearings: an Englishwoman suddenly left unhinged in a very alien culture. And through her verbal rambling, we are forced to step into the emotional maze provoked by her barely-acknowledged grief. It may begin with a bang, but the pleasures of Letters to Lorenzo are gentle and gently unnerving. --Alan Stewart
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1582340188
- ISBN 13 9781582340180
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages215
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Letters to Lorenzo
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Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, New York, USA, 1999
ISBN 10: 1582340188
ISBN 13: 9781582340180
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Seller: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. CA5 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first American edition with a sequence of numbers appearing on back of the title page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards with red lettering and graphics on the spine with a bookmark ribbon with minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light edge wear at the front top left corner plus the dust jacket endflaps are lgued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf war plus the endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. The main character of this novel is an English wife of a Roman industrialist. She is woken in the middle of the night by a telephone call notifiying her of her husband's death in a bomb explosion. The novel is set in the era of the Red Brigades and her husband's left-wing views has caused many to suspect that he had been transporting explosives for terrorists. She is convinced that her husband is innocent and she works to prove this and the fact that Neofascists planted the bomb to discredit the Left. As she frantically searches for the truth with the active resistance by the couple's relatives, she must also cushion her son from the pain of such a loss. By the author of "Strange Loop," "The Cabalist," "The Side of the Moon," "Proto Zoė," "The Young Italians," "The Kingdom of Fanes," and "Zoe Tropė." 215p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW07734
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Condition: BUONO USATO. IED. INGLESE Legatura editoriale in cartonato rigido ruvido, copertina in buono stato di conservazione, preservata da sovraccoperta illustrata, con alette. Ritratto fotografico dell' Autrice alla aletta posteriore. Stato interno buono, pagine ben tenute, velate da tonalitą brunita, maggiormente ai tagli ben conservati. Numero pagine 215. Seller Inventory # KEE4398
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