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Portofino
Portofino
Author: Frank Schaeffer
'Some kids I met told lies to be special. I told lies to be normal...' It is the early 1960s and for young Calvin Becker, the son of embarrassingly over-zealous American missionaries, the family holiday in the Italian resort of Portofino is the highlight of the year. But even under the influence of the seductive Italian summer, the remaining mem...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780552772877
ISBN-10: 0552772879
Publication Date: 6/1/2005
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Black Swan
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio Cassette
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This is a favorite book. Top 3 or 4. In Calvin Becker, our young narrator, you get a wry, honest observer of both his quirky, conservative family and the wonderful outside world filled with all the adventure and non-family things a young man would love. The book drips with honesty, humor, joy. Even when I'm not laughing at his bullseye views on the people around him, I'm often smiling and just enjoying the smooth prose of Frank Schaeffer.



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