Siracusa
By: Delia Ephron
Publisher: Point Blank
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781786071545; 9781786071552
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Married people; Americans; Marital conflict; Adultery; Fiction
Description: New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine - Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. "From the beginning," says Taylor, "it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together." Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present. Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in marriage.