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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-13

9780006542377

ISBN-10

0006542379

Weight

2.31 Pounds

Dimensions

5.12 x 0.88 x 7.76 In

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

368 pages

Publisher

Fourth Estate

Published On

1988-01-12



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