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The Apprentice Lover

The Apprentice Lover

The Apprentice Lover
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The Apprentice Lover Hardback - 2002

by Parini, Jay

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NY: Harper Collins, 2002. 307pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid-in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing, Complete Number String.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
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  • Title The Apprentice Lover
  • Author Parini, Jay
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Printing, Complete Number String.
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Collins, NY
  • Publication date 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 079932
  • ISBN 9780066210711 / 0066210712
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1.05 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.67 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromans, Young men
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001039675
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

A poet and biographer, Jay Parini is also a novelist whose fiction has been acclaimed as "dazzli/ng," (Los Angeles Times) "achingly beautiful," (Washington Post) and "a subtle masterpiece" (John Bayley in the Times Literary Supplement). In his new novel, The Apprentice Lover, Parini evokes the gorgeous Mediterranean island of Capri during the summer of 1970 as the setting for a sensuous, deeply affecting story of a young American's coming into his own and reconciling himself with his past.

When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet, who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island.

Among that group are the selfish, cunning, and brilliant Rupert Grant; his wife Vera, a charming and sophisticated social manipulator; the elusive Holly and the mysterious Marisa, who act as Grant's research assistants; the young philosophy student from the Sorbonne, Patrice LaRue; and Father Aurelio, who is desperate for parishioners.

The Apprentice Lover traces a young American's enchantment and disenchantment-with his American past, with his new European mentor, and with the various characters on an island famous for its characters. As Alex stumbles upon intrigues and secrets, he tries to balance what others demand of him with his own nascent desires. His apprenticeship in love, literature, and life unfolds with a combination of Mediterranean clarity, wry humor, wit, and emotional power that only a master of fiction could orchestrate.

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