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The Apprentice Lover Hardback - 2002

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Author: Parini, Jay
ISBN: 9780066210711

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NY NY: HarperCollins. Parini inscribes to Emily on free end paper. Otherwise NEW in near fine jacket. Strong tight fresh clean jacket boards . Texr unread. No remainder or other markings. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2002.

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Title The Apprentice Lover
Author Parini, Jay
Binding Hardback
Edition 1st Edition
Condition Used - Fine
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher HarperCollins, NY NY
Publication date 2002
Bookseller's Inventory # 016055
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)
Size 8vo.
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromans, Young men
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001039675
Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Quantity available 1

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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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