The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
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Author: Jess Walter
Price: $6.69 *Individual store prices may vary.
ISBN: 0061928127
Publisher: Harper
Year of Publication: 2012
Genre: Fiction,
Subgenre: Historical Fiction,
Date Read: Dec 4, 2012
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