L'America - Tapa blanda

In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet—beginning a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a privileged Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his family has lived for five hundred years; Beth, an ambitious American dreamer born to hippies and raised on a commune. The events of September 11 serve as a catalyst for the unfolding of their story, in which passion struggles against the inexorable force of patria.

The novel of the American in Europe has a long and lustrous pedigree. L’America adds to this lineage, an evocative portrait of the intersection between Europe and America, the old and the new, and the dizzying, life-changing power of first love.

A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year 
 
Beth and Cesare meet in Greece, she an American dreamer and he an Italian heir. Their love affair begins in the warmth and brilliance of the Aegean Sea. As their passion spans time and continents, their lives are forever entangled?their love a dizzying, exquisite story of culture, country, and the bonds we cannot break.

"Romance rules in L'America."--Harper's Bazaar

"L'America's beauty lies in the love between Cesare and Beth, neither idealized nor tragic but real in all its intensity. Everyone should feel that kind of love, if only just once."?Elle

"Captures the headlong energy of falling in love for the first time and discovering a sensual culture. A transcendent ending."--Los Angeles Times

"Luminous. McPhee is a brilliant stylist, and here she creates characters so palpably real, they seem to ache on the page . . . L’America is a heartbreaker of a book about everyday people made extraordinary by love."--The Washington Post Book World MARTHA McPHEE’s novel Gorgeous Lies was a National Book Award Finalist. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York.