Title from container. Compact discs. Read by Nick Podehl and Laural Merlington.
Contents:
The liar's wife -- Simone Weil in New York -- Thomas Mann in Gary, Indiana -- Fine art.
Summary:
In these novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title novella, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in America.
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