Beagle, Peter S.
Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders Claudio has always resisted change preferring farming and writing poetry. But one chilly morning as though from a dream an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off i nquisitive onlookers invasive media and even more sinister influences.--