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  Italian Fever: A Novel (Paperback) By (author) Valerie Martin

  

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  Short Description for Italian FeverPart romance, part suspense, and wholly entertaining, "Italian Fever" tells the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Martin redefines the Gothic novel in this compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into mystery, art, and eros.
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  • Publisher: Random House USA Paperbacks
  • Published: 01 June 2000
  • Format: Paperback 259 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Crime
  • ISBN 13: 9780375705229 ISBN 10: 0375705228
  • Sales rank: 514,790

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• "Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."--"Los Angeles Times" In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros. Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best-selling (but remarkably untalented) writer. When he dies at his villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Tuscany to settle his affairs. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens Stark's Emersonian self-reliance--and her very sense of what is real. The villa harbors secrets: a missing manuscript, neighbors whose Byzantine arrogance veils their dark past, a phantom whose nocturnal visits tear a gaping hole in Lucy's well-honed skepticism. And to complicate matters: Massimo, a married man whose tender attentions render Lucy breathless. Smart, sophisticated, achingly beautiful, Italian Fever is one of the most original and compelling novels of the year.