Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls in with an eclectic group of performance artists, ex soldiers and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Frances's past to be played out on the world's smallest stage. Frances expected to find some answers but what she didn't expect was romance and quite so much farce...
- ISBN10 0316861170
- ISBN13 9780316861175
- Publish Date 3 July 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English