The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime. The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents house on the Italian Riviera has a profund and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime, in a novel of obsession, passion, fear, and desire. By the author of False Papers. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.