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HIGH IN THESE MOUNTAINS, THE APENNINES, THE SPINAL CORD of Italy, with its vertebrae of infant stone to which the tendons and the flesh of the old world are attached, there is a small cave high up a precipice.
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"Crisp yet lyrical, simple yet intelligent...haunting, shocking, and tense."--Booklist
The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is deadly, unbeknownst to the sometime brothel worker, Clara, with whom he sleeps.Of a certain age, and as his feelings for Clara intensify, Farfalla has resolved to make his next job his last--all the while sensing a treacherous circle closing in on him. Martin Booth, novelist, critic, biographer, children's author and social historian, died this year in Devon, England. His novel Islands of Silence was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
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- Title A Very Private Gentleman
- Author Martin Booth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 274
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-02-01
- ISBN 9780312309091 / 0312309090
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Italy, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004057252
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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