The Uncle from Rome

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480443990

<DIV><DIV><b>An American opera singer travels to Naples and becomes embroiled in his strangest role yet</b></div><BR>Michael Ruane is an obscure American opera singer who arrives in Naples to play a small part in an important production of&#160;<i>Tosca</i>&#160;and star in his own staging of a little-known Benjamin Britten opera. The work comes at a particularly trying time, when he&rsquo;s still raw with grief after his New York lover&rsquo;s death from AIDS. As the productions get under way, Ruane is offered an unusual part: that of the &ldquo;uncle from Rome&rdquo; at a local wedding. According to tradition, the presence of the uncle from Rome at important events confers prestige on the family. However, Ruane is soon enmeshed in a drama that surpasses any role he has played on the stage.<DIV><i><BR>The Uncle from Rome</i>&#160;is a brilliant and colorfully imagined novel filled with theatrics of operatic proportions.</div></div>