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\n\nOrder your copy of \;The Prince \;from Mac&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry: macsbacks.com/book/9781950994199
\nA bout the author:
\nDinitia Smith is the author of four previous novels\, most recently The Honeymoon\, and her short stories have been published in numerous magazines. For 11 years\, sh e was a reporter at the New York Times where she wrote on literar y topics and intellectual trends. She has won many awards for her writing\ , including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ing ram Merrill Foundation\, the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers C onference. She is also an Emmy Award-winning film maker. \; Her film\, Passing Quietly Through\, was chosen for the New York Film Festi val\, and shown at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
\n< p>Her latest novel is \;The Prince\, a \ ;modern retelling of \;The Golden Bowl \;by Henry James.< /p>\nFrom their grand mansion on the Upper East Side to their magical p rivate island in Long Island Sound\, everything points to the Woodford fam ily as being perfect and idyllic. Why\, then\, is there such tension in th e air?
\nEnter Federico\, a penniless Italian prince who is about to marry Emily Woodford\, the only child of the family&rsquo\;s widowed patr iarch\, Henry. When Emily's beautiful\, enigmatic childhood friend\, Chris tina\, appears on the scene as a guest at their wedding\, trouble begins\, for she and the Prince once had a passionate affair. Henry\, however\, is also enchanted by Christina. Now both Emily and her father must face a ne w reality\, and learn whom they can\, or cannot\, trust.
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