Alfred Hayes
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Language
English
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The Girl on the Via Flaminia, first published in 1949, is a novel of life in Rome, Italy, shortly after the end of World War II. Allied troops occupy the city and the Italians struggle to cope with the soldier's presence while at the same time beginning the slow process of rebuilding their lives and their devastated country. One soldier arranges to share an apartment with an Italian woman he has met by pretending they are married...but the situation...
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Español
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Todo comienza con un guionista de Hollywood durante una fiesta en una casa frente al mar. Está solo y aburrido, y para evadirse de la charla convencional sale a la terraza y ve a uno de los invitados, una chica, que camina hasta la orilla. Primero no hace más que admirar su figura, pero en seguida advierte que ella quiere suicidarse y se precipita a la playa para intentar rescatarla. Un acto de compromiso, que tiempo después va a lamentar.
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3) Mi perdición
Author
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre en fuga termina encontrando siempre su pasado.
Quien huye en Mi perdición es Asher, un guionista que abandona Hollywood después de descubrir a su esposa en brazos de un compañero de tenis. Viaja a Nueva York, ciudad de su infancia, donde conoce a una pareja de jóvenes irreverentes: Michael, un poeta rudo que escribe versos pornográficos, y Aurora, una atrevida italianita dispuesta a visitar su cuarto de hotel casi todas las noches....
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers. Asher's career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. It's not a question of money; it's a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of an arch...
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1957
Language
English
Description
Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.
10) Paisan =: Paisà
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people living their everyday lives in extreme circumstances.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister, searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity, and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his...
14) Paisà
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field, she dies protecting a G.I. but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated, in six months they meet again. A U.S. nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German...