The Liar's Wife

The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America.   In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title story, who gets more o