A Roman Tale

Baker, Carroll

ISBN 10: 0451147723 / ISBN 13: 9780451147721

Published by Signet, 1987

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Paperback Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Roman Tale
• Publisher: Signet
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451147723
• ISBN 13: 9780451147721
• Binding: mass_market
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

After twelve years as a slave to her movie studio, a despotic husband, and a sex-symbol image, Madeline, a beautiful American actress, moves to Italy for a fresh start in life

From Publishers Weekly

When a Hollywood star's career is on the skids, she can go to pieces or to Italy. Which explains why 34-year-old Madeline Mandell, once billed as "the American Venus," is consuming pasta on a terrace in Rome with "Scandinavian screen goddess" Astrid, "Germany's sex symbol" Helga and "reigning Italian movie queen" Cleo. Each of them is eager for a role in Boccaccio Volgare, a four-part film epic starring superstar and lovable klutz Umberto Cassini, but their ambitions are threatened by the wicked machinations of a British actress who wants all four female roles for herself. While these matters are being resolved, some predictable diversions are offered: tours of Rome (food and wine included) alternate with myriad sexual encounters of a sort that might make Boccaccio blush. Madeline eschews most of the latter and saves herself for a final fadeout in the arms of Umberto, who is about to become both her husband and co-star. Though film actress Baker's first novel has as much staying power as the lira, it is lively and affable. Baker seems to be prolific: her memoir, To Africa with Love (Nonfiction Forecasts, Feb. 28), is out this month. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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