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Lost Hearts in Italy.


Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee Andrea Lee is an author from Yeadon, Philadelphia who has written Sarah Phillips, Russian Journal, Interesting Women: Stories and Lost Hearts in Italy: A Novel.  Random House, June 2006 $23.95, ISBN ISBN
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ISBN International Standard Book Number

ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 
 1-400-06169-5

Poor Mira. Poor impulsive im·pul·sive
adj.
1. Inclined or tending to act on impulse rather than thought.

2. Motivated by or resulting from impulse.



im·pul
, bored, selfish girl. She marries her college sweetheart and moves to Rome with him to start their new life together. Then she throws it all away.

That, in a nutshell nut·shell  
n.
The shell enclosing the meat of a nut.

Idiom:
in a nutshell
In a few words; concisely: Just give me the facts in a nutshell.

Adv. 1.
, is the premise of Lee's new novel, which moves back and forth between the mid-1980s and the present day, laying out in vivid, detailed prose the unraveling of a marriage that seems made in heaven but eventually devolves into an emotional hell.

--Marjorie Valbrun
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Author:Valbrun, Marjorie
Publication:Black Issues Book Review
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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