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The story begins in 1962. On the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, an American starlet, and she is dying. The story begins again today when an elderly...

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Main Author: Walter, Jess, 1965-
Other Authors: Ballerini, Edoardo, 1970- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : HarperAudio, p2012.
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Hotelkeepers > Italy > Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Fiction.
Americans > Italy > Fiction.
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Summary:The story begins in 1962. On the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, an American starlet, and she is dying. The story begins again today when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studios back lot, searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
Item Description:Unabridged.
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Duration: 13:00:00.
Physical Description:10 sound discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9780062268365
0062268368
Author Notes:Jess Walter was born on July 20, 1965. He graduated from Eastern Washington University. Before becoming an author, he worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written one nonfiction book and several novels. His works include Every Knee Shall Bow, Over Tumbled Graves, The Zero, and Beautiful Ruins. His novel, Citizen Vince, won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt.

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