Francesca Duranti
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A contemporary comedy of character and social class, a story of pasts redeemed, relationships righted, and a future secured during the course of a summer weekend on a Tuscan estate.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated for his work, ambivalent toward his girlfriend, and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel (The House on Moon Lake) in the journals of a late esteemed literary critic, he dreams that this project will put him on the cultural and literary...