{"product_id":"leading-men-one-of-the-great-love-stories-of-the-20th-century","title":"Leading Men by Christopher Castellani","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Extraordinary' Lauren Groff, author of Florida\u003cbr\u003e'Blazing... casts a spell right from the start' New York Times\u003cbr\u003e'A novel of rare insight and beauty' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePORTOFINO, ITALY. JULY 1953\u003cbr\u003eAt a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote, literary sensation Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet the enigmatic Anja Blomgren, an aspiring Swedish actress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir encounter will alter the course of their lives forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning half a century and featuring a dazzling cast of characters - from Anna Magnani cooking pasta amatriciana in a sun-kissed kitchen in Rome, to Ludovico Visconti barking orders on his latest film set - Leading Men is a heart-breaking novel about life in the shadows of greatness, and a moving re-telling of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I read Leading Men in one rapt afternoon, and spent hours afterwards just stunned from having been immersed in such a tender, psychologically devastating, and gorgeously precise novel' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Vividly reimagines the relationship between Williams and Frank Merlo... An alert, sweeping novel. To hold it in your hands is like holding a front-row opera ticket' Dwight Garner, New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I know of few books that give such a moving account of the indispensable value of genius and its intolerable human cost. This is a novel of rare insight and beauty, and Castellani is a writer of brilliant gifts' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Seductive and steamy' Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e'Touching' Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e'Dazzling' Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e'Spectacular' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53011636846858,"sku":"9781474613545","price":6.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/2E16076C-A80B-40F4-BB97-3F4430988558.jpg?v=1778248399","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/leading-men-one-of-the-great-love-stories-of-the-20th-century","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}