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6. Empty Canvas--Moravia
The man who has since done most to popularize wine in the U.S. is Ernest Gallo, 52, president of the E. & J. Gallo Winery Corp. in Modesto. Until recently, United Vintners, run by Gallo's rival Louis Petri, was the biggest producer of cheap wines in the nation, but...
At 35, Dino is a failed artist whose canvas is literally empty. Life is a bore, boredom equals artistic impotence. Enter Cecilia. From then on, the empty canvas scarcely matters because Dino's bed is always full.
Amoral as a chimpanzee, as empty of brains as a gourd. Cecilia possesses at 17 the troubling sexuality that inevitably unhinges Moravia's men. She is the mistress of a 65-year-old painter who has a studio down the hall. When the old painter dies of a heart...
Few living novelists can detail life's miseries and ironies as movingly as Moravia did in Two Adolescents (1950), Conjugal Love (1957), or Two Women (1958). But in Empty Canvas, as all too often in recent works, Moravia has directed his skilled and serious attention to characters and situations...