Roman Tale

Carroll Baker

ISBN 10: 0747230757 / ISBN 13: 9780747230755

Published by Headline Book Publishing, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Roman Tale
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747230757
• ISBN 13: 9780747230755
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1753696380.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47051529
• Signed: 7/28/2025 9:53:00 AM
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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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