Cabaret: A Roman Riddle
by Lily Prior
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- as new
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0060772581
- ISBN 13
- 9780060772581
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Synopsis
struggling mortician in working-class Rome, Freda only married her repulsive ventriloquist husband, Alberto, because it was prophesied that she'd do so. Now that he's vanished mysteriously along with his equally abhorrent dummy (who Freda suspects is actually a midget), she'd like them both to stay missing -- though she's devastated by the simultaneous disappearance of her soul mate, Pierino, her beloved talking parrot. While the police investigate this series of possible crimes, Freda will continue embalming by day, unleashing her caged passions at night in a seedy cabaret (until a tragic fire leaves the proprietor with a tuba stuck on his head), trying to make do with a talking hamster in lieu of dear Pierino . . . and recalling the vagaries of life that led her to this unfortunate juncture.
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- Bookseller
- Eighth Day Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106385
- Title
- Cabaret: A Roman Riddle
- Author
- Lily Prior
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060772581
- ISBN 13
- 9780060772581
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Date Published
- July 2006
- Pages
- 288
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