Apprentice Lover

<p>When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter -- day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs friendships and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island.</p><p><em>The Apprentice Lover</em> traces a young American's enchantment and disenchantment -- with his American past his new European mentor and the various inhabitants on an island famous for its characters.</p>