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The angel of Rome : and other stories / Jess Walter.

by Walter, Jess, 1965-

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.

Life change events -- Fiction.

Change -- Fiction.

Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.

9780062868114 (hc)

274 p. ; 24 cm.

Mr. Voice -- Fran's friend has cancer -- Magnificent desolation -- Drafting -- The angel of Rome -- Before you blow -- Town & country -- Cross the woods -- To the corner -- Famous actor -- Balloons -- The way the world ends.

"We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during 'the year of my reinvention' finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams. Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again 'solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds' (Esquire)."--Publisher.

Literary fiction.

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