The Girl on the Via Flaminia

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Robert is an American soldier in occupied Rome during the final months of WWII. Lisa is a young woman obliged to work in Mama Adele's on the Via Flamina. The passion they feel for one another is fuelled by their separate and equally desperate needs. But can love between victor and vanquished ever blossom This classic story of a poignant love affair, informed by the aftermath of war, is as relevant and moving today as when it was first published.

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Poet, screenwriter, and novelist, Alfred Hayes was one of the most important American writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Twice nominated for an Academy Award, he collaborated on films directed by Fellini, De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Rossellini (Paisan), Zinnemann, and Fritz Lang (Clash By Night). His novels include In Love and My Face for the World to See. Of the many poems and song lyrics he wrote, the union ballad Joe Hill, popularized by Joan Baez, is the best known. He died in 1985.