Indian Summer (New York Review Books Classics) Book

In Indian Summer, Theodore Colville, a successful Midwestern newspaper publisher just turned 40, sells his business and heads for Italy. Colville runs into Lina Bowen, once the best friend of the woman who jilted him, now the vivacious survivor of an unhappy marriage. Colville also meets her young visitor, 20-year-old Imogene Graham ? lovely, earnest to a fault, and brimming with the excitement of her first encounter with the great world. The drama that plays out among these three gifted and well-meaning people against the backdrop of Florence, the brilliance of their repartee, and the accumulating burden of their mutual misunderstandings ? before everyone is mercifully saved from both their worst mistakes and best intentions ? makes for a comedy of errors that is as winning as it is wise. This charming and intelligent romantic comedy was the inspiration for Henry James's The Ambassadors.