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Meeting in Positano / Goliarda Sapienza ; translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore.
Record details
- ISBN: 1635420431 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781635420432 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781635420432
- ISBN: 1635420431
- Physical Description: 249 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Italian as Appuntamento a Positano in 2015 by Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino. |
| Summary, etc.: | "In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the dazzling Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship. Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer Goliarda Sapienza's recently rediscovered novel takes the reader to the sun-drenched town of Positano in southern Italy. There, while working on a film, Goliarda encounters the captivating Erica, a beautiful widow called "Princess" by the locals, who has been the object of much speculation. As the two women grow closer in spite of their different personalities, they gradually reveal more about their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and the ghosts from their pasts that continue to hang over them. Writing the story of this transformative friendship thirty years later, Goliarda offers a profound reflection on love in its many forms, and opens a window onto an enchanting time and place that lingers in the mind"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Female friendship > Fiction. Women > Italy > Fiction. Positano (Italy) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tolland Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Tolland Public Library | F SAP (Text) | 34051148379095 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Meeting in Positano : A Novel
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Author Notes
Meeting in Positano : A Novel
Goliarda Sapienza was born in Catania, Italy in 1924. She moved to Rome at the age of 16 to study at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, followed by a career as an actress in both films and the theater. She wrote several novels, including The Art of Joy , which remained unpublished until after her death. Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator who previously worked as foreign fiction editor of the Italian publishing house Chiarelettere in Milan. He won the 2021 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature, and his translations have appeared in publications such as 3:AM Magazine , The Arkansas International , and Asymptote .
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