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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1960

Pages
  
110 ppp

Originally published
  
1960

Genre
  
Fiction

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Publisher
  
McGraw-Hill

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

OCLC
  
290337

Author
  
Elizabeth Spencer

Country
  
United States of America

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Adaptations
  
Light in the Piazza (1962)

Nominations
  
National Book Award for Fiction

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The Light in the Piazza is a 1960 novella by Mississippi writer Elizabeth Spencer.

At its core are Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara, on vacation in Italy, where Clara becomes enamored of local Florentine Fabrizio. What appears on the surface to be nothing more than a romantic story of young love slowly dissolves into a more tragic tale involving a past accident with serious consequences, dark family secrets, deception, and a conflict between maternal love and responsibility and an innocent girl's physical and emotional desires as she becomes aware of her awakening sexuality. A secondary plot resembles a comedy of manners as it examines the national differences between Americans and Italians, both represented in a somewhat stereotypical fashion.

Adaptations

Screenwriter Julius J. Epstein adapted Spencer's book for a 1962 film, directed by Guy Green. The cast included Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, Rossano Brazzi, and George Hamilton, who was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance.

In 2003, the book inspired a musical adaptation, written by Craig Lucas and composed by Adam Guettel.

References

The Light in the Piazza (novel) Wikipedia