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In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet—beginning a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a privileged Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his family has lived for five hundred years; Beth, an ambitious American dreamer born to hippies and raised on a commune. The events of September 11 serve as a catalyst for the unfolding of their story, in which passion struggles against the inexorable force of patria.
The novel of the American in Europe has a long and lustrous pedigree. L’America adds to this lineage, an evocative portrait of the intersection between Europe and America, the old and the new, and the dizzying, life-changing power of first love.
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Martha McPhee's L'America is a sweeping tale of transatlantic love, anger, tragedy, and reconciliation, told from both personal and historical perspectives. At the novel's core is an epic romance between an idealistic American and a pragmatic Italian, each of whom possess qualities that both repel and attract the other. The result is a journey through the lives and times of two people for whom an imperfect love will become the driving force for their entire past, present, and future.
Eighteen-year-old Beth arrives in Europe with a naiveté that is matched only by her bravado. The daughter of an aging hippie who runs a commune in memory of his dead wife, Beth is determined to explore the world her father so vehemently eschews. Cesare is a young Italian whose family history is deeply rooted in traditions that seem unbreakable. When they meet on a small Greek island, they are immediately drawn to the sense of "otherness" they see in each other. As their bond deepens, so do the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that keep preventing them from living happily ever after. But still, "What they wanted was to live something unlivable, step inside the lost chance."
McPhee is an extremely talented writer, and her detailed descriptions of sun-soaked Grecian beaches, overstuffed yet cozy New York apartments, and wide open Pennsylvanian orchards are as emotionally charged as her explorations of irrepressible love and cataclysmic grief. On occasion, her strong narrative voice seems to overpower her characters, but she always knows just when to come back to the raw beauty of Beth and Cesare's story. It is that purity, both of love and of loss, that makes L'America a gorgeous treasure to behold. --Gisele Toueg
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A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
Beth and Cesare meet in Greece, she an American dreamer and he an Italian heir. Their love affair begins in the warmth and brilliance of the Aegean Sea. As their passion spans time and continents, their lives are forever entangled?their love a dizzying, exquisite story of culture, country, and the bonds we cannot break.
"Romance rules in L'America."--Harper's Bazaar
"L'America's beauty lies in the love between Cesare and Beth, neither idealized nor tragic but real in all its intensity. Everyone should feel that kind of love, if only just once."?Elle
"Captures the headlong energy of falling in love for the first time and discovering a sensual culture. A transcendent ending."--Los Angeles Times
"Luminous. McPhee is a brilliant stylist, and here she creates characters so palpably real, they seem to ache on the page . . . L’America is a heartbreaker of a book about everyday people made extraordinary by love."--The Washington Post Book World MARTHA McPHEE’s novel Gorgeous Lies was a National Book Award Finalist. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0156032368
- ISBN 13 9780156032360
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages294
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