L'America / Martha McPhee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPhee, Martha.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Fiction.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Hippies.

Families.

Hippies--Family relationships--Fiction.

Children of the rich--Fiction.

Children of the rich.

Americans--Europe--Fiction.

Americans.

Europe.

Aegean Sea Region--Fiction.

Aegean Sea Region.

Islands--Fiction.

Islands.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

America

Place of Publication:

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2006]

Summary:

In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet-and thus begins a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a cosseted Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his family has lived for five hundred years; Beth, an ambitious American dreamer born to hippies and raised on a commune. The events of September 11 serve as a catalyst for the unfolding of their story, in which passion struggles against the inexorable force of patria. An examination of the intersection between Europe and America, the old and the new, L'America is above all a remarkable evocation of the dizzying, life-changing power of first love. The novel of the American in Europe has a long and lustrous pedigree. Now Martha McPhee joins the ranks of its most impressive practitioners.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151011710

OCLC:

61140997

Publisher Number:

9780151011711