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With strange echoes of today’s New York City, Irwin Shaw’s 1962 novel starts with a once-famous actor being punched in the face for no reason after arriving in Rome to do a looping job. While the overwritten story goes downhill from there, it takes a riveting look at Italy’s La Dolce Vita atmosphere, with characters reportedly based on Tyrone Power and Darryl Zanuck.

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