De laatste zomer in de stad

Brand new first time in English of a 1973 Italian novel.

Not my kind of thing. Leo is turning 30 and lazy (not too lazy to party though). He has no drive or desire to accomplish. He claims to be poor, but always has enough money to get by--often by mooching off friends, visiting at dinner,

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housesitting etc. He wants to marry and wants to get a good job but even when opportunities are handed to him, he walks out and decides he "can't". Most of his friends are wealthy or at least employed--and he definitely did not grow up poor. His parents and married-with-kids sisters still live around Milan.

This reminds me of The Sun Also Rises and every other wealthy-20-somethings-do- nothing book. But in Rome.

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