The woman of Rome
Publisher: Farrar, Straus
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Translation of: La Romana: romanzo
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Italy -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty, who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and cannot quite identify the moment when she traded her dream of home and children for the life of a prostitute. Set amid the glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini.
Notes: Translation of La Romana.