PARINI, JAY — The Apprentice Lover: A Novel
New York, HarperCollins. 2002, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0066210712) Hardcover. Book, 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. 307p. Remainder mark. else as new. Near Fine/As New.