The Arrangement

L'inconsistente fascino della borghesia Prendiamo un americano (nel senso di statunitense) di origine greca - ma questa è una storia che meriterebbe un commento a parte - della media borghesia e di mezza età; poniamolo negli anni Sessanta, diciamo verso la fine degli anni Sessanta: in quegli anni in......more

This was such a bloody good read. I did not expect this to go the way it did. RTC.......more

On the rating, I think I waver between 4 and 4.5 stars for this one. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy myself while reading this book, but it really is something of an unusual book, particularly when you consider that it was published in the 1990s. This Regency historical is set well outside the famili......more

This is a strange book. A best-seller in 1967, its been out of print for decades. It was Kazan's first novel, and as everyone knows, he'd spent his first 50 years as an actor and director - not as a writer. Basically, its the story of a middle-aged, rich, L.A. Adman, a 2nd Generation Greek, who finds......more

Kazan's novel exposes the characters' soul (his own, most likely). Feelings are well described along the whole path to renewing his whole life, to a reunification of his private ego and his pen-name self. At the same time, the story features an early (the book was written half a century ago), underl......more