No Way

In the pervasive atmosphere of la dolce vita, one of Italy's foremost novelists has created the compelling and powerful portrait of a family of modern Romans. Breaking with its influence ar Michael, a revolutionary in exile, and Mara, who may or may not have borne his child and who drifts from place to pace and bed to bed because there's no reason not to. Meanwhile, struggling to hold her family together, is Adriana, Michael's mother, 43, divorced, abandoned by her lover- and despairing of Michael's and Mara's values while paying the price of her own. Ginzburg creates a marvelous and saddening world... in a sense, the world of the Finzi-Continis. She creates a whole society of irretrievable lost dreams.