See Naples : a memoir / Douglas Allanbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allanbrook, Douglas, author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allanbrook, Douglas.

Americans--Italy--History--20th century.

Americans.

History.

Naples (Italy)--Social life and customs.

Naples (Italy).

Americans--Italy--Naples.

Naples (Italy)--History--1945-.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.

World War, 1939-1945.

Italy--History--Allied occupation, 1943-1947.

Italy.

Manners and customs.

Military campaigns.

Italy--Naples.

Americans--Italy--Naples--Biography.

Genre:

History.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 269 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.

Summary:

See Naples: A Memoir begins in a villa high above the gorgeous ruin of Naples four years after World War II. Composer Douglas Allanbrook is passionately involved with Laura, a ringer for Bette Davis, but he is in love with Naples, with the opera at San Carlo, with the inflections and rhetoric of the scugnizzi, street actors in this most dramatic of cities. Allanbrook spent from 1943 to 1945 in Italy with a U.S. infantry division that took seventy-five percent casualties, shuffling among land mines, reading maps in command posts by lamplight, and watching helplessly as his friends were killed. In 1949 he returned to Naples, where he cured himself of the war and married Candida, with whom he returned to America to make a family and a life.

Notes:

"A Peter Davison book."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

ISBN:

0395745853

9780395745854

OCLC:

32665109

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