Unclouded Summer

Unclouded Summer

Alec Waugh

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2012
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781448200375
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The bright summer sun faded into the shimmering Mediterranean as the young American painter began what was to be the five most perfect hours of his lifetime. It would be more than just an affair, a passionate encounter, and yet it would come to nothing. It would be a period of total enchantment that would remain to haunt him for the rest of his life, affecting his career, his code of behaviour, his entire existence. He sensed all this and yet he went to her, this woman he loved, this woman who could never be his...

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