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The apprentice lover : a novel / Jay Parini.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.A65 A67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parini, Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Private secretaries.
- Capri Island (Italy)--Fiction.
- Capri Island (Italy).
- Private secretaries--Fiction.
- Americans--Italy--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Italy.
- Brothers--Death--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Brothers--Death.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Italy--Capri Island.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2003.
- Summary:
- When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of school to live in Capri and serve as secretary to world-famous writer Rupert Grant. Told with wry humor in an elegant prose style, "The Apprentice Lover" is a remarkable piece of fiction that includes appearances by such colorful literary figures as Graham Greene and W.H. Auden.
- ISBN:
- 0060935561
- 9780060935566
- OCLC:
- 52101687
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