Portrait of a Woman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781401009403
Subjects: Historical fiction; Thrillers; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General
Description: "Historically founded on the seventeenth century Stradivari family, Portrait of a Woman is a novel about Beatrice Stradivari, a young concert guitarist, and the two men who vie for her love; of an older Beatrice who, during World War II, rescues Italian Jews by crossing the Swiss border; finally, of an aging Beatrice, who, as a Benedictine nun, Mother Ambrose, catches the interest of a novelist who falls in love with her in his imagination. In his effort to translate his devotion into a novel, he searches out Mother Ambrose's secret on the shores of Como, Istanbul, Dubrovnik, and Rome"--Dust jacket.