Techniques of Seduction - Softcover

De Carlo, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848760825 ISBN 13: 9781848760820

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Sophisticated, subtle and humorous, Techniques of Seduction is a poignant love story of sexual intrigue, and a gripping plot with a wickedly unexpected ending. Roberto Bata, frustrated by his dead-end journalistic career, is attempting to write a novel. His ingenuous yet perceptive novel-in-progress is brought to the attention of charismatic celebrity-author Marco Polidori, a literary icon who offers himself as mentor, urging Roberto to give up his job and move to Rome to complete his novel. Once in Rome, Roberto is trapped in a web of corruption and intrigue, encountering double-dealing characters and money-laundering within the backbiting milieu of TV, cinema and stage. Roberto will experience temptations beyond his control before discovering he may have lost everything he'd ever dreamt of accomplishing...

About this title

About the Author:

Described as a 'cosmopolitan minimalist,' Andrea De Carlo was 'discovered' in the early 1980's by one of Italy's most famous literary icons, Italo Calvino, who wrote the introduction to De Carlo's first novel, Cream Train (Treno di Panna, 1981). De Carlo grew up in Milan, and is the author of fifteen novels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages. Paula Geldenhuys was born in Cape Town, South Africa. However, she has spent most of her professional life in Florence, Italy where she has lived for twenty-five years. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature, working as a university lecturer and literary translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1848760825
• ISBN 13: 9781848760820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284