Harpercollins. 08/01/2001. 352 pgs. In this fable-like novel, Renato Tizzoni, who lives in the Tuscan town of Sant'Angelo d'Asso, is distressed when his best friend dies, the government announces it's going to build an intrusive a dam in his quiet town, and his daughter falls for a boy he can't stand. Life has lost all its luster, and he becomes depressed. Then a dream instructs him to go to the Pope for counsel, and as the townspeople find out where he's going they load him down with their own requests. Enlightened by the hard luck of others, Renato determines to try to solve his own problems. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Holiday House. 01/01/1974. Illustrated. 48 pgs.

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