Innocence
Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
ISBN: 9780006542377
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 1996
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 128mm x 196mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes.
Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very little, which gives him time to think…
ISBN: 9780006542377
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 1996
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 128mm x 196mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes.
Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very little, which gives him time to think…
