num_pages: 304
description: Eddie Hoffa was one of those guys who always looked good, with long, dark hair, a permanent suntan, and a barometrically precise instinct for style. Women would stop on the sidewalk and stare after him. He always ended up with the choicest places to live, the most dazzling girlfriends. In short, he was destined for the sort of blessings that other men could only dream of.Or at least that's how it used to be, back in the '70s. That was when everything was going his way, when he could get a place to stay for free, turn in one old girlfriend for a new one. That was before he met Bella, the exotic and skeptical woman who stopped Eddie in his tracks. Who had his number. And who left him changed forever.Everything after Bella - after he willed her, her drug habit, and her two insolent daughters out of his life - seemed to remind him of the mistake he'd made in leaving her.Now, twenty years later, at forty, Bella still steals the scene when she walks through a room, still gets drinks sent to her at bars, still makes the most rational of men behave irrationally. Twenty years later, Eddie's reduced to wearing borrowed clothes, sleeping on other people's couches, and becoming an unwitting participant in a bungled hold-up. He's even a sorry outlaw. But he's determined to find Bella.From the New Age enclaves of California to the Deep South to New England, Eddie &amp; Bella follows the odyssey of two lost souls who make it back to each other. For better or worse.
language: English
title: Eddie and Bella
titlecomplete: Eddie and Bella
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Algonquin Books