Robert Hellenga

"Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded rivrbanks. Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While... Lire la suite

The Confessions of Frances Godwin is the fictional memoir of a retired high school Latin teacher looking back on a life of trying to do her best amidst transgressions-starting with her affair with Paul, whom she later marries. Now that Paul is dead... Lire la suite

Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a... Lire la suite

È meglio leggerla, la vita, o viverla ogni giorno? Questa è la domanda che percorre tutta l’esistenza di Gabe, cresciuto tra gli scaffali della Chas. Johnson & Son, Ltd., Antiquarian Booksellers, rivendita di libri rari e di seconda mano fondata da... Lire la suite

An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence, featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures. Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of... Lire la suite

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The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa,... Lire la suite

Chas. Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations-grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has... Lire la suite

Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning.... Lire la suite