Come back to Sorrento
By: Dawn Powell ; introduction by Tim Page
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: South Royalton, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781883642266
Subjects: Women singers; Women music teachers; Married women; Psychological fiction; Friendship; Fiction
Work titles: Tenth moon
Description: Dawn Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the village shoemaker's wife, was raised in a wealthy household and had pretensions toward an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, is a homosexual in a closeted era who once spent time abroad studying piano.

The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other in a conviction of superiority and translating the surface monotony of their lives into a drama richer than reality.
Notes: "Originally published as: The tenth moon."