Betsy Lewis is an innocent abroad until she meets Alice Blanders Russo and her much younger lover, Leo Conti. Together they form a triangle of friendship and desire that will turn Betsy s marriageand her principlesupside down. Add a hilarious excursion to find her Italian roots and the rediscovery of an old friend (brilliant, black and gay), and Betsy is on a road to self-discovery filled with unexpected turnings and definitely dangerous curves. Alive with the attractions and contradictions of Rome and the Americans who ...
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Betsy Lewis is an innocent abroad until she meets Alice Blanders Russo and her much younger lover, Leo Conti. Together they form a triangle of friendship and desire that will turn Betsy s marriageand her principlesupside down. Add a hilarious excursion to find her Italian roots and the rediscovery of an old friend (brilliant, black and gay), and Betsy is on a road to self-discovery filled with unexpected turnings and definitely dangerous curves. Alive with the attractions and contradictions of Rome and the Americans who gathered there in the 60 s and 70 s, "Friends Along the Way" explores serious relationships with just the right touch of wild humor, capturing the flavor of love Italian stylerich, robust, and a feast to remember. Julia Markus, an English professor at Hofstra University, received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for her first novel, "Uncle," which was followed by three well-received novels, "American Rose," "Friends Along the Way" and "A Change of Luck," as well as her critically acclaimed biographies, "Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning" and "Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time." She has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Her most recent book is "J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian." An entire generation s rite of passage. "Philadelphia Inquirer" Tracing the ties that bind and the ties that unravel. "Chicago Sun Times" A Book one wants to keep on reading. "New York Time Book Review" Deeply engagingopens up wonderful new angles onto fiction s familiar landscape of passion and the search for self "Newsweek""
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Very good. Signed by author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 270 p. Audience: General/trade. 2017 paperback no printing listed (presumed 1st this of this edition) warmly inscribed (which always means to a particular person) by the author on the title page in April of 2018. Some denting/curling, small fray on back cover, else text clean, binding tight.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. First edition. Near fine in good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear at tips and corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Book is tight with no markings, minor soiling to top page edge, dj has a small tear along front bottom fold, minor soiling to dj, great copy.
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Good in good dust jacket. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.
