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Ladies with a Unicorn

Monica Stirling

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Description:Excerpt from a Rome gossip column:"Recently arrived in Rome is eighteen-year-old Anna-Maria Minsell, petite, vivacious, dark-haired Londoner who will star in Count Anton-Giulio Sarmento's latest neo-realistic picture. The daughter of a Soho organ grinder, starlet Minsell will find herself in cosmopolitan company—including that of Anglo-French composer Françoise Joubert, whose music for director Sarmento's latest picture, The Day Before Yesterday, has just won her the Sedgwick Rome Award. . ."Thus Monica Stirling sets the scene for her new novel about film making in Rome and ladies in love.For frustrated travelers who share Anna-Maria's life-long dream to visit Italy and especially for those stricken with nostalgia for Rome, we recommend Ladies with a Unicorn as a delightful interim balm. And a balm with a built-in bonus. For, in addition to savoring Monica Stirling's sensitive evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of a Roman summer, wandering in and out of movie sets after hours when the back-stage intrigue, unrecorded by cameras, takes place, and going to a party in a baroque old castle overlooking the Mediterranean, you'll meet some charming people and hear a lot of wise and witty talk about everything from love, money, friendship, food, and music, to movies and materialism.For instance, there's:Françoise Joubert of the "stiff, quiet face"—residue of war-time plastic surgery—the gifted composer-narrator, who clings to her tragic past until dramatic developments open her eyes to the possibilities of the future and a second chance.Peggy Latour—Françoise's rich, beautiful, sybaritic friend of British boarding-school days, whose motives in backing the film in question are adulterously ulterior.Anna-Maria Minsell—whose adolescent passion for sensibleness comes a cropper when she falls in love with a man old enough to be her father.Princess Valeria Girafalcone—a flamboyant, tempestuous royalist and busy-body who firmly believes "everyone should have a lover,"—a grande-dame in the best Latin tradition.Count Anton-Giulio Sarmento—Italy's foremost film producer-director, and the object of the love of these four ladies.For those who like their light romance laced with wit, charm, and elegance, we give you Monica Stirling's Ladies with a Unicorn.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ladies with a Unicorn. To get started finding Ladies with a Unicorn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release: 1954

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Description: Excerpt from a Rome gossip column:"Recently arrived in Rome is eighteen-year-old Anna-Maria Minsell, petite, vivacious, dark-haired Londoner who will star in Count Anton-Giulio Sarmento's latest neo-realistic picture. The daughter of a Soho organ grinder, starlet Minsell will find herself in cosmopolitan company—including that of Anglo-French composer Françoise Joubert, whose music for director Sarmento's latest picture, The Day Before Yesterday, has just won her the Sedgwick Rome Award. . ."Thus Monica Stirling sets the scene for her new novel about film making in Rome and ladies in love.For frustrated travelers who share Anna-Maria's life-long dream to visit Italy and especially for those stricken with nostalgia for Rome, we recommend Ladies with a Unicorn as a delightful interim balm. And a balm with a built-in bonus. For, in addition to savoring Monica Stirling's sensitive evocation of the sights, sounds, and smells of a Roman summer, wandering in and out of movie sets after hours when the back-stage intrigue, unrecorded by cameras, takes place, and going to a party in a baroque old castle overlooking the Mediterranean, you'll meet some charming people and hear a lot of wise and witty talk about everything from love, money, friendship, food, and music, to movies and materialism.For instance, there's:Françoise Joubert of the "stiff, quiet face"—residue of war-time plastic surgery—the gifted composer-narrator, who clings to her tragic past until dramatic developments open her eyes to the possibilities of the future and a second chance.Peggy Latour—Françoise's rich, beautiful, sybaritic friend of British boarding-school days, whose motives in backing the film in question are adulterously ulterior.Anna-Maria Minsell—whose adolescent passion for sensibleness comes a cropper when she falls in love with a man old enough to be her father.Princess Valeria Girafalcone—a flamboyant, tempestuous royalist and busy-body who firmly believes "everyone should have a lover,"—a grande-dame in the best Latin tradition.Count Anton-Giulio Sarmento—Italy's foremost film producer-director, and the object of the love of these four ladies.For those who like their light romance laced with wit, charm, and elegance, we give you Monica Stirling's Ladies with a Unicorn.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ladies with a Unicorn. To get started finding Ladies with a Unicorn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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