On the Seashore - Rodolfo Baldassarri - Bog

Rome, Summer 1986Meet Valerio Redi a modern-day Dorian Gray. All his life he has yearned for love, dreamed of love, written of love. Yet, always it has eluded him. Through the ever beautiful, but sometimes sordid streets of Rome, Valerio pursues one woman after another in his never ceasing quest to find his soulmate. One affair follows the next, each woman more beautiful than the last, and yet the spark is never quite there. They toss him aside, or he tosses them aside and Valerio's desire for love goes unfulfilled. Until finally, one day on the seashore, he notices Barbara. She captures his heart as he captures hers, and what follows is a whirlwind of passion, fury and romance as Valerio's dark side threatens to ruin his one true chance of happiness. At its heart On the Sea Shore is a story of love, anger, and obsession. A man battling with himself, a man struggling to be good, but drowning under the need to be bad. In the end, it is this inner turmoil that is Valerio's undoing.