Leading Men A Novel

Christopher Castellani, Edoardo Ballerini

eAudio - 2019

"Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times"A timeless and heartbreaking love story." —Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere"An extraordinary book." —Lauren Groff, author of FloridaIlluminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century - Tennessee Williams and his longtime partner Frank Merlo - Leading Men is a glittering novel of desire and ambition, set against the glamorous literary circles of 1950s ItalyIn July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounte...r will go on to alter all of their lives.Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary... more