A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes'own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished. 'Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences' Paul Bailey, Guardian'Rings true as gold ... every single character in the book is sharp with the infallible stroke of art' Daily Mail

The Girl on the Via Flaminia

Literature & Fiction

Hayes, Alfred

Literary

Penguin Classics

Tragedy Alfred Hayes, adapted from his best seller Characters: 7 male, 4 female  Complete interior set Here is a merciless picture of hardened American conquerors abroad and their impact on pitifully defenseless people. A young American soldier takes on a pretty, fearful Italian girl to while away the tedious occupation. She consents with deep bitterness and restraint; the only jobs and bread are in the American kitchens. The country's pride is fiercely moral and the girl is stigmatized by the local police and populace. This is her final, mortal shame and she runs off into the night. He follows her but is too late. In another times and place they might have truly loved one another. "Thoughtful, disarming ... full of humanity and variety." N.Y. Times.

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

Asher is fifty years old and as this story starts he has just come back to NY on a journey into his past, and that of the city-- a quest after what he was and a search for what goes on now. The city has changed and so has Asher.

The end of me

Atheneum

The Last Crusade: And Other Poems

Trieste Publishing

<p>A powerful novel, telling of a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young divorcée who lives alone in a tiny, untidy apartment in the New York of the 1940s. Here, he visits her, erratically and not always happily. All is soon inexorably overturned when a rich interloper comes between the couple with an indecent proposal - a thousand dollars for a night. A little masterpiece"" - Elizabeth Bowen. ""Brilliant...Quite the best he has written"" - TLS.</p>

In Love (Modern Romance Classics)

Peter Owen Ltd

In Love

David Western

World Literature

Legare Street Press

<p>This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.</p>

The Vale Of Arden: And Other Poems (1895)

Kessinger Publishing

The March of Man: And Other Poems

History & Criticism

Nabu Press

History

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