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The girl on the Via Flaminia / Alfred Hayes.
Van Pelt Library PS3515.A9367 G57 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985, author.
- Series:
- Penguin modern classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- Americans--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Women--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- Romance fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Rome, December 1944. The city has been liberated by the Allies, but no one feels like celebrating. A bitter wind blows down Via Flaminia, where Signora Adela Pulcini keeps her boarding house and discreetly finds Italian girls for lonely America soldiers. Robert is one such soldier; Lisa is the girl procured to keep him company in return for food and shelter. But the simple exchange doesn't go to plan, as Robert and Lisa find themselves tangled in a dark, mutually destructive affair. Exposing the fault-lines between men and women, the old and new worlds, and victor and vanquished, Hayes's spare, taut novel is an incisive portrayal of sexual economics and the dark side of love.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780241342329
- 0241342325
- OCLC:
- 1022077431
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