The love of my youth / Mary Gordon.

This work is a novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years, walking the streets of Rome and reimmersing themselves in their lost past. Miranda and Adam, high school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, where they once spent a summ...

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Main Author: Gordon, Mary, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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