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WAR AND LOVE FROM ITALY TO CALIFORNIAAn
extravagant neobaroque artist and outspoken protofeminist, the mercurial Romana Laura Anzi survived Mussolini and the Nazis, risked her life carrying messages for the Italian Resistance, and wound up marrying a wisecracking bespectacled GI journalist who fought in the Italian Campaign then stayed on in Rome to woo herRomana was the authors mother The GICharles E Downie, Jrwas his fatherRanging from the Dolomites in World War One to Rome in the s, s and s, then to San Francisco and Berkeley in the s, s and s, Shadows of Rome tells the bittersweet tale of this unlikely midthcentury ItalianAmerican couple and their unusual offspringWith wry humor and philosophical detachment, in the pages of this moving memoir acclaimed travel writer and novelist David Downie relives his own rollercoaster youth in California and Italy, evoking among the memoirs many quirky characters his highcolor Italian uncles and largerthanlife grandfather, an antifascist lawyer and freemason tortured and ruined by Mussolinis Fascist Black ShirtsWithout trying to be, Shadows of Rome is disconcertingly topical in Trumps AmericaPraise for other books by David DownieZesty and entertainingKirkusDelightful and thoroughly researchedPublishers WeeklyBeautifully written and refreshingly originalThe SF ChronicleDelightful and insightfulThe Seattle PostIntelligencer and Chicago TribuneUnequaled poignancy and passionNational Geographic TravelerExpertly captures the powerlessness and courage of those in perilBooklistCompelling a rapturous, historyrich love poemThe Toronto StarFabulous company!NPR