Italian Fever |
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| Author:
| Martin, Valerie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7538-1858-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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| Imprint: | Phoenix |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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'Taut, honed and surprising' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
Thirtysomething 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...
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'Taut, honed and surprising' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
Thirtysomething 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.