ARTISTS IN ROME

by Ugo Moretti ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1958

A present day boheme set in the chic squalor of the Roman artists' quarter with its restaurants, American bars, night clubs, stellers boutiques, galleries, pensions and tenements. The narrator, a journalist and sometime film writer, in a series of connected tales tells of his friends--perpetual graduate students, artists, models, would-be movie producers and actresses, bums, waiters, entertainers, young Americans on a fling--and their troubles- chiefly amatory and financial. For all of the concern with husbands fooling wives, wives cheating husbands or lovers, artists and writers conning the rich into subsidizing art shown and evant-garde magazines, these stories have a carefree and almost innocent quality until the end of the book when real tragedy enters several of the stories and the narrator- in telling of his own past- emerges as something other than a warm-hearted friend and host. Seemingly written with the American market firmly in mind, this should please those readers who like their bohemianism second-hand and their literature sprightly but with an occasionally serious overtone.

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1958

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1958

Categories: FICTION