The Picture Book by Keating, Susannah - 2000

New York, Ny, U. S. A.: Morrow/Avon. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover, Cloth. Fresh from school, Patrizia Orman, twenty-two, works as a gallery assistant in SoHo, and dreams of success in the art world when her mother is killed in a car acident. Patrizia returns home for the funeral and her emotional shock is compounded when her godmother presents her with a cache of letters from her father - a man she has never known. He godmother reveals that this man had been her mother's great love, a charismatic art dealer she met when she studied in Rome. Hurt and confused by the revelations but longing to know the truth, she travels to Rome to find her father while pretending to be just another American art student. 244 pages, no marks or tears. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. .