A present-day hapless
young man, estranged from his wife and back to living in his parents’ basement developing
movie pitches; a seriously ill actress alone in a tiny Italian village in 1962;
a famous producer who has had so much “work done” he resembles a smooth-faced
troll; a young woman questioning her dream job in Hollywood; a young Italian
who has returned from Florence to run his father’s sad little hotel in a dying
coastal village; a writer stuck forever in chapter one of the book about “his”
war; Dick and Liz – yes, that Dick
and Liz – on the set of Cleopatra. The delight of this novel, which reads
like a guilty-pleasure beach book but is far more complex and well-written, is
how the author brings all these disparate characters together. Wise, funny, a little heartbreaking and
wonderful. 337 pp.
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