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Fiction

In 1962, on the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American actress, and she is dying. The story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man appears on a movie studio’s back lot, searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. Published in 2012; 337 pages.

Includes 15 paperback copies and 1 book club guide prepared by WCPL.