Italian fever

a novel

1st ed.

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Author

Valerie Martin

Publication

1999 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL371057M
ISBN-100375405429
OCLC Control Number40142915
OCLC Control Numberitalianfevernove0000mart
Library of Congress Control Number98031824

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LibraryThing145500
Goodreads1196254

Classifications

DDC813/.54
LCCPS3563.A7295 I83 1999

Description

Lucy Stark - clever, pragmatic, capable - is the assistant to a best-selling but remarkably untalented writer named DV, who has spent the last several months in Tuscany searching for inspiration. One morning in Brooklyn, as Lucy sits at her desk reluctantly reading the first half of DV's latest novel, she receives a startling phone call: DV is dead, and the circumstances are suspicious. Soon Lucy finds herself in Italy, where her search for the rest of DV's manuscript leads her into the thick of various mysteries. Was DV murdered, or just the victim of his own stupidity? Was the ghost story he was writing pure fantasy, or did it hint at a darker reality? Is the devastating, married Massimo, who cares for Lucy in ways no one has before, as dangerously in love with her as she is with him?