Title: The Italian lover
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2007
Description: An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence  , featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures.          Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica - and the misguided love affair it inspired - is now, 25 years later, being made into a movie. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, writes a script that she thinks will validate her life. Of course their script is not used, but never mind - happy endings are the best endings for movies, as Margot eventually comes to see.  At the former convent in Florence   where "The Sixteen Pleasures" - now called "The Italian Lover," - is being filmed, Margot enters into a drama she never imagined, where her ideas of home, love, art, and aging collide with the imperatives of commerce and the unknowability of other cultures and other people.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Literature, Motion picture authorship, Fiction, Americans, Fiction, romance, general, Italy, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Motion picture industry, fiction, Florence (italy), fiction
Places: Italy, Florence (Italy)
LC classification: PS3558.E4753 I84 2007