He seems to have a "girl" in every port who is willing to sail with him for a short time without serious romantic entanglements. The two men start sailing around the lake together sharing adventures. Piero Chiara was an Italian writer. Nor do I think it makes it irrelevant as a topic to cover on this blog. The Bishop's Bedroom (La Stanza Del Vescovo) Details: 1977, Rest of the world, 110 mins. A quick read, a story whose setting...primarily in a villa on Lake Maggiore, is the essential element of the story which involves a man, Orimbelli, who is greedy for life, and a man, the unnamed narrator, who literally sails into his life and seems open to almost anything. But there is a mystery, love interest, and a murder. One night he is invited to the water side mansion of an older man who lives with his wife and widowed sister-in-law. An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint. It is also the setting of Piero Chiara’s The Bishop’s Bedroom, published originally in 1976, but only now translated into English by Jill Foulston. The Bishop's Bedroom is an odd sort of story with no sign of a sympathetic character or reliable voice throughout. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published He would march over to the Bishop's house, through their back door and right up into the Bishop's bedroom. The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes. Movie & TV guides. “Come in,” Clele said, and the new bishop of the Cannonville (Utah) Ward walked into the Fletcher family living room and right into history. With the firmness of a righteous bishop, and with love in his heart and eyes, he said without hesitation, “Clele, I need you. The Bishop's Bedroom The Bishop's Bedroom is an act of prestidigitation, a sleight of hand, it's riveting, entrancing and delicious but so mysterious, thrilling." To see what your friends thought of this book. It does serve as a picture of the self-centered, almost narcissistic attitudes prevailing after the disruption of Italian life and culture coming out of World War II. The Bishop's Bedroom is the most celebrated of his many acclaimed novels. The majority of the novel is an engaging travelogue of the gentleman's travels aboard his small sailboat on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. The characters' behaviors are questionable, sometimes annoying, and I feel like it's trying to make a social commentary on men, men and women, marriage...? Originally published in 1976, this new English translation of Piero Chiara's classic Italian novel is very welcome. A man in his thirties is sailing on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, hoping to put off the inevitable return to work. A sultry, stylish psychological thriller executed with supreme literary finesse. His sailing companion is the married head-of-household on the shore of the lake. Use the HTML below. I always believe every book blurb, doncha know... and this one alluded to "its shocking and satisfying final act." Supporting actors include Lia Tanzi and Piero Mazzarella. Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde (Muti). Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories. 2.5 Still conflicted on this one. Instead of finding out where the film gets it's title from, he prefers peeping at Ornella Muti instead. Thank goodness this book was only 150 pages. Direction: Dino Risi. Lots of great imagery of Lake Maggiore and the Northern Italian Coastline and the leisurely upper-class life which I enjoyed. 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