ROME and La Dolce Vita via fiction

Three fabulous novels that absosulutely capture the feel of the 1950s and 1960s in Rome and La Dolce Vita - Mario Lanza, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn...suddenly Rome has become the most glamourous place on earth. Enjoy these specially selected books and transport yourself back in time.

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Rome of the 1950s, a terrific period of gorgeous frocks, glittering events and movie stars. Rome is all about narrow streets and alleyways, grand boulevards, fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, sultry at night, cafes and bars full of music and larger than life characters: .... Mario Lanza - this is the novel of Serafina, a poor girl who finds her way into the great singer's household and becomes an important member of the entourage.

And if you want even more glamour, this is another terrific read, evocative of both the era and the places, Rome and Hollywood. The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. A few days later international star Richard Burton, much the worse for wear, appears in the village too.

Half a century later, and half a world away in Hollywood, an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the woman he last saw in his hotel fifty years before.

And in this final selection, real crime, behind the scenes of the glamourous lifestyle in this historical exposé. On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Torvaianica, forty kilometres from the Italian capital. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police tried to close the case, darker rumours bubbled to the surface. Could it be that the mysterious death of this quiet, conservative girl was linked to a drug-fuelled orgy, involving some of the richest and most powerful men in Italy?. 

 

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