The Bay of Noon
By (author): "Shirley Hazzard"
Publish Date:
1970
ISBN014010450X
ISBN139780140104509
AsinThe Bay of Noon
CharactersGianni, Jenny Unsworth, Gioconda, Justin Tulloch
Original titleThe Bay of Noon
Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory
A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda’s lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past?and the patterns of a lifetime?are not easily discarded.