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Zusatztext Gorgeous and sweeping ... A sumptuous work of historical fiction... The author describes the sights! sounds! cruising zones! and violent surprises of 1950s Italy so deftly! the novel could stand in for a vacation; but also manages to capture the lightning of these massive artistic figures on the page with such force! that it feels as if you have tiptoed around Williams's desk in Rome while he was busy writing a masterpiece . Informationen zum Autor The son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware, CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI now lives in Boston, where he works as artistic director of Grub Street, one of the country's leading independent creative writing centers. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for researching and writing LEADING MEN. Klappentext PORTOFINO, ITALY. JULY 1953 At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote, literary sensation Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet the enigmatic Anja Blomgren, an aspiring Swedish actress. Their encounter will alter the course of their lives forever. Spanning half a century and featuring a dazzling cast of characters - from Anna Magnani cooking pasta amatriciana in a sun-kissed kitchen in Rome, to Ludovico Visconti barking orders on his latest film set - Leading Men is a heart-breaking novel about life in the shadows of greatness, and a moving re-telling of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century. 'I read Leading Men in one rapt afternoon, and spent hours afterwards just stunned from having been immersed in such a tender, psychologically devastating, and gorgeously precise novel' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'An alert, sweeping novel. To hold it in your hands is like holding a front-row opera ticket' New York Times A dazzling and devastating reimagining of Tennessee Williams's love affair with his longtime companion Frank Merlo. Zusammenfassung A dazzling and devastating reimagining of Tennessee Williams's love affair with his longtime companion Frank Merlo....
