A Very Private Gentleman
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: January 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312309091
Subjects: Popular English Fiction; Fiction - Psychological Suspense; Fiction; Psychological; Suspense; Fiction / General; Literary; Butterflies in art; Deception; Italy; Painters
First sentence: HIGH IN THESE MOUNTAINS, THE APENNINES, THE SPINAL CORD of Italy, with its vertebrae of infant stone to which the tendons and the flesh of the old world are attached, there is a small cave high up a precipice.