From Library Journal
pap.* $6. F The noted playwright took his first plunge into fiction with this 1950 novel. Reminiscent of his brand of drama, the plot follows an older woman's romantic involvement with a younger man in the great Italian capital. At the time of its debut, LJ 's reviewer praised the book for its "splendid characterization" ( LJ 9/1/50). This newest installment in New Directions' "Bibelot" series should be in all fiction collections.
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Product Description
Reissued in the VINTAGE CLASSICS series, a novel which follows an American actress-turned-widow as she battles to keep the effects of old age at bay. She takes a handsome Italian lover in Rome, but the price she must pay is too high - the loss of her dignity. From the author of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.