What is missing

Resource Information

The work What is missing represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Normal Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

What is missing

Statement of responsibility

Michael Frank

Creator

• Frank, Michael, 1959 June 2-

Author

• Frank, Michael, 1959 June 2-

Subject

• Fathers and sons
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Infertility, Female
• Infertility, Female -- Fiction
• Italy
• Italy -- Fiction
• Motherhood
• Motherhood -- Fiction
• New York (State)
• Domestic fiction
• Physician and patient
• Physician and patient -- Fiction
• Secrecy
• Secrecy -- Fiction
• Widows
• Widows -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Henry Weissman is a renowned New York physician specializing in reproductive medicine who harbors a secret. He is giving a series of lectures in Florence, where he is accompanied by his nearly eighteen-year-old son, Andrew, a budding photographer who resists his father's controlling nature.There, Andrew meets Costanza Ansaldo, a mysterious and alluring half-American, half-Italian translator who has come to Florence on the first anniversary of her husband's death. Andrew and Costanza strike up an intimacy, which mystifies and unsettles Henry, who quickly becomes infatuated with Costanza himself, as she eventually does with him. What starts as a classic oedipal triangle between a father, a son, and a beautiful woman morphs into something utterly unexpected as the three of them return to New York. Back in America, as the larger family dynamic becomes increasingly strained and Costanza tries desperately to conceive, Henry's secret is revealed, with shattering consequences for everyone involved."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3606.R3834

LC item number

W43 2019

Literary form

novels