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The Tutor
Recent Yale grad, Alice, wants to be close to her boyfriend in Paris, with enough space to sow a few oats. Rome fits, so off she goes. Her other goals? To make art and find a muse. Instead, she finds herself a muse to various men―including a TV-host dwarf, lonely banker, alcoholic playboy, aging prince, and the disillusioned Oscar-winning film director, Frank Colucci.
The middle-aged Frank is in Rome to film the last of his famed movie series, but longs to get back to making art films. Alice, still wandering Rome, lost and confused, tumbles into Frank’s life, and he hires her as his philosophy tutor.
Although at opposite poles of life with little in common―the bright but broke Alice is just getting started and has few prospects, and the married-with-kids Oscar-winner Frank bored and disillusioned―the two form a bond.
Will this be an older, powerful man using his position to seduce a confused young woman, or something else entirely? And will Alice ever find her way?
The middle-aged Frank is in Rome to film the last of his famed movie series, but longs to get back to making art films. Alice, still wandering Rome, lost and confused, tumbles into Frank’s life, and he hires her as his philosophy tutor.
Although at opposite poles of life with little in common―the bright but broke Alice is just getting started and has few prospects, and the married-with-kids Oscar-winner Frank bored and disillusioned―the two form a bond.
Will this be an older, powerful man using his position to seduce a confused young woman, or something else entirely? And will Alice ever find her way?
312 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2019
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October 8, 2020
A sparkling coming-of-age tale edged with mystery, delicious wine, tasty romps, and Immanuel Kant.
Marilee Albert's "The Tutor" has achieved something exceptional. In her debut novel about a recent Yale film-philosophy graduate, she catapults a young, love-torn woman named Alice into Rome—where she does pretty much anything to get by, knowing this is the perfect time for her to shuck inhibitions and live freely before she settles down —into a page-turner that stands out from the pack of the genre. Albert never stalls the narrative into pretentiousness about history's wise elders, nor swans her characters into an Italian cotton-candy, Spaghetti Western-version of a rom-com. You don't know if Alice, this bright, self-conscious and vulnerable Californian will fall prey to swarthy dangers before the climax where she interacts with an Oscar-winning director ... who may or not be who everyone thinks he is. Though a longer book, readers won't be bored. They'll be rooting for Albert's likable anti-hero, even as they occasionally cover their eyes to see what a 22-year-old, in a foreign land with little more than chutzpah and a handful of lire, living partly in a murdered guy's apartment, will do in search of the real her. Loved it! Like Grace Slick said, go ask Alice!
Marilee Albert's "The Tutor" has achieved something exceptional. In her debut novel about a recent Yale film-philosophy graduate, she catapults a young, love-torn woman named Alice into Rome—where she does pretty much anything to get by, knowing this is the perfect time for her to shuck inhibitions and live freely before she settles down —into a page-turner that stands out from the pack of the genre. Albert never stalls the narrative into pretentiousness about history's wise elders, nor swans her characters into an Italian cotton-candy, Spaghetti Western-version of a rom-com. You don't know if Alice, this bright, self-conscious and vulnerable Californian will fall prey to swarthy dangers before the climax where she interacts with an Oscar-winning director ... who may or not be who everyone thinks he is. Though a longer book, readers won't be bored. They'll be rooting for Albert's likable anti-hero, even as they occasionally cover their eyes to see what a 22-year-old, in a foreign land with little more than chutzpah and a handful of lire, living partly in a murdered guy's apartment, will do in search of the real her. Loved it! Like Grace Slick said, go ask Alice!
October 28, 2019
I received this free book from the author for honest review.
4 stars ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐
This is the first time reading from this author.
What a beautiful wonderful amazing read.
What a great read! This had me hooked from the beginning. The sitting, theme, and the Characters had me pulled so in. Everything was well put together and it was just perfect. This novel did just that to me.
Highly recommend everybody get this book and read it. Its so good!
Can't wait for her next book.
#thetutor
4 stars ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐
This is the first time reading from this author.
What a beautiful wonderful amazing read.
What a great read! This had me hooked from the beginning. The sitting, theme, and the Characters had me pulled so in. Everything was well put together and it was just perfect. This novel did just that to me.
Highly recommend everybody get this book and read it. Its so good!
Can't wait for her next book.
#thetutor
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