The angel of Rome : and other stories
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.
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Life change events > Fiction. Change > Fiction. Rome (Italy) > Fiction. |
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Short stories. Satirical literature. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780062868114
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Physical Description
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274 pages ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Mr. Voice -- Fran's friend has cancer -- Magnificent desolation -- Drafting -- The angel of Rome -- Before you blow -- Town & country -- Cross the woods -- To the corner -- Famous actor -- Balloons -- The way the world ends. |