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The Girl on the Via Flaminia
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A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini’s house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes’own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished. ‘Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences’ Paul Bailey, Guardian’Rings true as gold … every single character in the book is sharp with the infallible stroke of art’ Daily Mail
Additional information
| Weight | 0.123 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 2018-8-2 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241342325 |
| About The Author | Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) was born in London and grew up in New York, where he later worked as a newspaperman. After joining the army in 1943 he served with the US forces in Italy. While in Rome he met Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini on the film Paisà, and began his career in script-writing. He moved to Hollywood to work in the movies and was twice nominated for an Oscar for his scripts. Hayes' seven novels include The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949), In Love (1953), My Face for the World to See (1958) and The End of Me (1968). |
A superb short novel … The Hemingway influence is clear, but Hayes is his own man, a master of irony and ambiguity … An enthralling narrative, and art of a high order |
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| Other text | It is a bigger story than it seems to be, for it has implications that spread through the city and the world |
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