Publisher: Harper Audio
Publish Date: June 12, 2012
Format: Audio
Discs: 10
ISBN: 978 0062268365
The story beings in
1962. On a rocky patch of the
sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams,
looks on over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea
and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him
on a boat. She is an actress, he soon
learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
And the story beings again
today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie
studio’s back lot – searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel
decades earlier.
My Thoughts
Well, all I really have to say about this is that it is one hot mess of a book. Like the description states the story unveils a dozen characters...a dozen! And not only that, but each of them have a point of view in the story telling. This book is all over the map. Every chapter is told by a different character, during a different time period in a different city. I listened to this on audio, and while I found the narration enjoyable to listen to I found myself either lost in the story and had no idea what was happening or bored out of my mind from the rambling.
There is not one character that is likable, all of them drove me crazy. I can't think of one thing that I took away from this novel or that I found memorable. I'm not sure how a novel with so many story lines happened to come to a neat and tidy end in no time flat. If felt like the story was still unfolding then all of a sudden...The End. Like at the end of a movie when it's over then they show a still picture with a character update. Everything started with such promise, why couldn't the story have just continued on with Pasquael and the beautiful setting of Italy?
2 stars for the narration of Edorado Ballerini.
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The reviews made here are my personal opinion. I’m not being paid to review any of these books. I am by no means a professional book reviewer or editor. I do this for the love of books.
The reviews made here are my personal opinion. I’m not being paid to review any of these books. I am by no means a professional book reviewer or editor. I do this for the love of books.
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