ABSTRACT

During Serena's trip to Ireland in 1980 she got her first break. From the trip to Ireland, she had to return earlier because of her, her baby, and her day job. With his girlfriends staying on, and her body-mind opened up by the multiple stimulations, on her way back she made friends with Johannes, a graduate student from UC Berkeley on his way to visit his German-Swiss family. Her lessons in eroticism continued as she settled in her ambiguous status at the registry. Serena's lessons in eroticism continued as she settled in her ambiguous status at the registry. It was after her graduation, in 1979, and they were going to visit the birthplace of Sean O'Casey, the author whose plays she discussed in her laurea thesis. she met him at Veronica's, who had been a model for Guttuso, a very sensual Italian painter of the modernist generation- the warm aura of his gaze still lingering on her.