Dead Letters

by Francis King (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.19

  Steve has embarked on his journey of a lifetime. Having left the Sydney slum in which he grew up, he's backpacking around Europe. But his meeting with the ageing writer Prince Stefano Torre della Aquila will change him forever.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.19

  This is Francis King at his very best as he enters not only the world and sensibilities of Stefano, old and declining, a prince from an ancient Sicilian family with an unfinished novel in him, but the simple, good-natured and damaged heart of Steve, an Australian hitch-hiking the world, who hates to be touched, is wary of affection and is incurious and unable to educate himself. In restoring the prince's magnificent Bugatti, Steve brings satisfaction to his own life and provides Stefano with the creative energy to finish his great work.