Title: The Apprentice Lover
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: March 5, 2002
Description: When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter -- day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island.The Apprentice Lover traces a young American's enchantment and disenchantment -- with his American past, his new European mentor, and the various inhabitants on an island famous for its characters.
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Death, Brothers, Young men, Private secretaries, Authors, Americans, Eccentrics and eccentricities, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Italy, fiction