... the trial that Dolores endured were both heart-breaking and overwhelming. I found her very relaible. The author has an extensive vocabulary, which allow the reader to become more engaged in the storyline. Readers can take from this book a greater knowledge of other cultures throughAmerica, Brazil and Australia. This book could do well. --
Kelly Moran An Amazing Story by Carlo Gabbi
You may think this is purely a love story but no, it is not. It is mainly the story of Dolores who is on quest to find true love, happiness, and her purpose in life.
The book starts with Uncle Bill narrating his expiriences while in Brazil and also how he met Juanita. Juanita is Dolores' mother.
There are maany characters in the book but I'll start with Uncle Bill, as Dolores calls him. He does not have a happy marriage and find comfort in the arms of Juanita. He believes Juanita is his true love but they cannot be toghter since he has to return to his promiscuos wife in Australia. Bill also treats Dolores like his own daughter and he's one of the few people whom she can trust.
When Bill and Juanita separarte, Juanita met another man Jack. At first, Dolores looked up to Jack as a loving father but he has been sexually abusing her without her knowing it because she is still too young to understans and all. She thought that he's just being a loving father figure.
One night Juanita thought that Dolores was trying to steal Jack away from her, although Dolores was just actually trying to save her mother from Jack's cruelty and selfiness. Since then, Dolores wassn't on good terms with her mother.
Her mother was certainly very blind to everything and naive at that time.
Dolores left for Sydney, working as a dancer. But she didn't stay long at the job. After that, she tried to get herself recruited into modelling agencies but to not avail. Things got so bad and she was absolutely desperate for money until she decided to be a high class prostitute at the Brazil nightclub in Kings Cross. She vowed to save up enough money so that she can return to Brazil to start a brand new life.
Cupid's arrow struck her when she met Thomas, a famous photogrpher who thinks that he is not capable of loving a woman. However, she's unsure if he reeally likes her or just using her. She'll just need to wait and see how things go then.
Dolores wrote parts of life down in her diary and she send a manuscript to Uncle Bill, probably hoping that he'll write a story of her life. That's how the story began.
It is an interesting and unique book. There are also many events in the story and it gets complicated if you dont read it properly. Beside that, I think that girls and women should read it as it is a story for women after all.
Apparently 'An Amazintory Story' is a partly true story, to what extend I do not know, is there a real Dolores out there?
All the same, if it is a true story, it's good that it is written. Maybe it may be a guide for young women who may feel that they have nowhere else to go or have completely given up love. Dolores' story is caopable of helping women out there.
Thanks to Carlo Gabbi for providing me a copy of this book!
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An Amazing Story is not only the best way to describe Carlo's journey through life, it is also the title of his novel.The story create the necessary suspencethat the reader demands. The book combine sex, love and adventure to tell the story of Dolores.It follow her journey through life from where she was born in Brazil to California where she she first had contact with love. Sexually molested by her stepfather leds her in a downward spiral.In a later time she moved to Sydney in the hope to securing a brilliant career, sucess and wealth. Instead in her desperation, she turns to prostitution in the bustling suburb of Kings Cross. -- The Gatton Star
