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The Florentine Papers
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781966218005
Publisher: Tivoli Books
Published: Feb 3 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Thom Palmer's richly imagined first novel offers a hilarious yet bittersweet examination of food, art, and love. The unnamed narrator of this brilliantly conceived farce, a struggling poet in San Francisco, finds that his life takes a dramatic turn when he meets and falls hopelessly in love with enigmatic young Maria Perpetua, a brainy and seductive food writer composing an encyclopedic masterpiece on spinach. Their ill-fated romance, and the consequences of her sudden rise to cult fame, form the core of a mock memoir related in a highly original fictional voice. Funny, strange, and poignant, The Florentine Papers is a sumptuous feast of food and language, a novel The Washington Post called a fascinating tale with two marvelously memorable characters.
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