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A story that turns the extraordinary into the everyday and offers observations on love, loyalty, and sexual freedom presents the saga of a young virgin, Alicia, and her twin Carlo, who is involved in restoring stolen art fragments to the Vatican. A first novel.
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VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW
In this delightful first novel, Moore tells the fantastical tale of two Italian twins, Alicia and Carlo. Alicia possesses a sixth sense and can read her brother's thoughts even after he leaves the family to make his fortune in America. Poor Alicia has little else exciting to do, as Carlo has left to her the responsibility of caring for their aging parents. Moore slips a serious feminist message into her light hearted, action-packed story. As a man, Carlo has access to types of power denied to Alicia, and this inequity fuels Alicia's anger, which in turn sets the plot in motion. Gradually, Alicia learns to use her own powers to obtain her long thwarted dreams. The magical world Moore conjures up has the enchanting quality of a fairy tale.
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In this delightful first novel, Moore tells the fantastical tale of two Italian twins, Alicia and Carlo. Alicia possesses a sixth sense and can read her brother's thoughts even after he leaves the family to make his fortune in America. Poor Alicia has little else exciting to do, as Carlo has left to her the responsibility of caring for their aging parents. Moore slips a serious feminist message into her light hearted, action-packed story. As a man, Carlo has access to types of power denied to Alicia, and this inequity fuels Alicia's anger, which in turn sets the plot in motion. Gradually, Alicia learns to use her own powers to obtain her long thwarted dreams. The magical world Moore conjures up has the enchanting quality of a fairy tale.
THE PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
Writing in a style as clear as watercolor painting, Moore mixes fantasy, religion and superstition with fully rounded characters and an amusing plot that moves from Lazlo Toth's destruction of the Pietà to the Farm in Tennessee.
BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
Moore acts as a writer and sculptress. She chips away at our heroine and her sometimes comical story until Alicia emerges polished and magnificent...BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
Writing in a style as clear as watercolor painting, Moore mixes fantasy, religion and superstition with fully rounded characters and an amusing plot that moves from Lazlo Toth's destruction of the Pietà to the Farm in Tennessee.
BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
Moore acts as a writer and sculptress. She chips away at our heroine and her sometimes comical story until Alicia emerges polished and magnificent...BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
... the heroine's malignant magic works for the novel on a subtle, psychologically credible level.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0312132034
- ISBN 13 9780312132033
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages309
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