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Come Back to Sorrento

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This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781883642266.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED as "The Tenth Moon," "Come Back to Sorrento" is the second of Powell's "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the village shoemaker's wife, always wanted an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, once spent time abroad studying piano. The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other and translating the surface monotony of their lives into drama richer than reality.

Language: English

Pages: 185

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Zoland Books

Release: June 01, 1998

Come Back to Sorrento

4/5 ( ratings)

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781883642266.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED as "The Tenth Moon," "Come Back to Sorrento" is the second of Powell's "Ohio novels" to be re-issued in paperback. Here Powell turns her attention to those certain rare souls who have the secret of finding their lives glamorous and themselves magnificent under the most humble conditions. Connie Benjamin, the village shoemaker's wife, always wanted an operatic career. Blaine Decker, the new high school music teacher, once spent time abroad studying piano. The two are drawn together into a powerful friendship of dependence, each sustaining the other and translating the surface monotony of their lives into drama richer than reality.

Language: English

Pages: 185

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Zoland Books

Release: June 01, 1998

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