The angel of Rome : and other stories

Author

Jess Walter

Call Number

• LARGE TYPE FICTION WALT (CEN)

Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022].

Physical Description

370 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Contents

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