Roy Wallace
ASIN: B00QA1HZXS
Publisher: Roy Wallace
Pages: 492
A finalist in the HarperCollins Fiction Prize, 'Mirella's Cathedral' is a saga, a duel between love and ambition.A chaotic blend of romance, tragedy, triumph and humor, it reminds us that striving for great things always involves compromises along the way, and the very real risk of trading off something that we can't live without.In the summers before the outbreak of World War I, English landscape painter, George Pugh, rents a room in Villa Casagrande just outside Santa Margherita, a sub-alpine village near Brescia, Italy. Fluent in their language, he loves Italians, especially the Casagrandes and the Rossis, their neighbors.Statuesque, and with a stupendous voice, Mirella Rossi wants more from life than the motherhood preached by the padre. She also loves Alberto Casagrande, but insists career must come before marriage. George befriends Alberto, but believes no man will be happy with ...