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An American living in Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide tracks a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Pat Conroy
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 784
- Publisher
- LGF, Bantam Books, Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Italian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780553574579
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First sentence
“I am usually up when the Piazza Farnese awakens.”
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