**A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.** *'Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.'* Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matter. Arresting, evocative subject matter. So they decide to go Abroad, as much as possible, for
Abroad
โ Scribed by Crouch, Katie
- Book ID
- 108070449
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780345813664
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
It all started very simply: A girl packed a suitcase full of soap and clean underwear and went to Italy. She was young--open as an empty highway. She met some people there. Love happened. And then, her ending began.
Grifonia, Italy. Home to thousands of years of secrets. Upon entering those ancient walls for her year abroad, Tabitha Deacon is entranced. And under the influence of a new, wealthy group of friends from her program, Taz quickly falls into a life of secretive, eccentric parties in abandoned cathedrals and medieval villas that are like nothing she's ever imagined. But Claire, Taz's plainspoken, unsettlingly beautiful roommate, is worried that Taz isn't really suited to her new bacchanalian lifestyle. A true friend, Claire wants to get to know Taz as she really is. Then, when both girls fall in love with the same quiet Italian with an odd, undisclosed past, everyone's morals are called into question. As the girls' boundaries disappear, Taz and Claire...
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