- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 272
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Vintage Contemporaries
- EAN: 9780375705229
- Utgivelsesår: 2000
- Bidragsyter: Martin, Valerie
199,-
"Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."--Los Angeles Times
In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman''s headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.
Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best-selling (but remarkably untalented) writer. When he dies at his villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Tuscany to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens Stark''s Emersonian self-reliance--and her very sense of what is real. The villa harbors secrets: a missing manuscript, neighbors whose Byzantine arrogance veils their dark past, a phantom whose nocturnal visits tear a gaping hole in Lucy''s well-honed skepticism. And to complicate matters: Massimo, a married man whose tender attentions render Lucy breathless.
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In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman''s headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.
Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best-selling (but remarkably untalented) writer. When he dies at his villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Tuscany to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens Stark''s Emersonian self-reliance--and her very sense of what is real. The villa harbors secrets: a missing manuscript, neighbors whose Byzantine arrogance veils their dark past, a phantom whose nocturnal visits tear a gaping hole in Lucy''s well-honed skepticism. And to complicate matters: Massimo, a married man whose tender attentions render Lucy breathless.
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