Summary
A love story involving an American tourist in Italy. Sophie, a middle-aged woman on a holiday, meets and is pursued by Tancredi, a married Italian architect. She resists him at first but eventually gives in without much enthusiasm. Slowly and with remarkably little passion, the couple falls in love.
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"Rarely is emotional power so finely mingled with a writer's perception of meaning and of means." -- Laurence D. Lafore
-- New York Times Book Review
"[A] near-perfect first novel."
-- Time
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published date: 1981
Publisher's Notes
During the Feast of the Ascension, a young English girl visiting Italy meets, allows herself to be seduced by, and falls in love with a middleaged architect separated from his wife.
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