The Trial of Alexis Pierce

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Όνομα Συγγραφέα: Βασίλης Αυξεντίου

Είδος: Κλασικό κοινωνικό μυθιστόρημα

Βία; Ελάχιστη

Σεξ; Λίγο

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Summary of The Trial of Alexis Pierce. Alexis Pierce, a divorced, ex-writer, has been living in Greece in hope of finding the baby she bore and had given for adoption just after her short lived marriage over fιfteen years ago. Para11el to a fruit1ess search, she is taunted by anxieties of a single woman turning forty. George, a spontaneous and ambitious architect of forty-two, helps her discover a latent talent she harbores: the classica1 guitar. Her endeavor in music brings Dimitri, a young and sensitive composer, into her life. Dimitri recognizes her talent and undertakes to make her a soloist. He later introduces the boy Vasi1i to her, his equa11y ta1ented student, whom she recognizes as her lost son. After a ca1amitous business venture, George pledges revenge οn his business rival by threatening to expose that the other's son had been purchased at a slave market. Alexis discovers that Vasi1i's foster father and George's riva1 are one and the same. Not wanting to revea1 her identity to anyone, in fear of consequences that wou1d destroy her son, she devises a plan using her reputation as a writer by which none of the parties suffers, yet Vasi1i is rescued. But upοn his visit, Alexis' beloved father, a musician as well, recognizes his own grandson. Alexis confides ίn him and then in Dimitri, the man she loves. In the end, Vasili's father, seeing the boy's talent, gives his consent for him to join the other three in a career of music; Vasi1i never knows the tria1s and tribu1ations his mother went through to protect him.