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Leading Men audiobook
- By: Christopher Castellani
- Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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Leading Men Audiobook Summary
“Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“A timeless and heartbreaking love story.” –Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
“An extraordinary book.” –Lauren Groff, author of Florida
Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century – Tennessee Williams and his longtime partner Frank Merlo – Leading Men is a glittering novel of desire and ambition, set against the glamorous literary circles of 1950s Italy
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives.
Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary film icon Anja Bloom, lives as a recluse in the present-day U.S., until a young man connected to the events of 1953 lures her reluctantly back into the spotlight after he discovers she possesses the only surviving copy of Williams’s final play.
What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can’t save ourselves? Like The Master and The Hours, Leading Men seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives. In an ultimately heartbreaking story about the burdens of fame and the complex negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness, Castellani creates an unforgettable leading lady in Anja Bloom and reveals the hidden machinery of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century.
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Leading Men Full Details
| Narrator | Edoardo Ballerini |
| Length | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | Christopher Castellani |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 03, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781984842503 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Leading Men is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: summer reading, beach reads, historical fiction books, lgbtq, lgbt, novels, gay books, gay, tennessee williams, books about Hollywood, romance books, Italian novel, LGBT books, biographical fiction, love story, old Hollywood, Hollywood, gay culture, novels set in Italy, reading gifts, leading men, literary fiction, fiction, gay fiction, fiction books, lgbt books, literature, lgbt fiction, books fiction, realistic fiction books, lgbt novels, historical, art, music, mystery, romance, drama, historical romance, saga, suspense, love, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Biographical, Fiction, Gay The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the Leading Men is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781984842503.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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