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Años felices
At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, Alfred Montsalvatjes, a young man with a deep cut to his hand, arrives at hospital in New York. He's a foreigner, he wants to be a writer and, in the eyes of Jean Rosenbloom, the nurse who tends to him, he is a fairytale prince. Alfred will soon become the centre of a group of friends who see him as the magical solution to everything life refuses to give them: a confidant, a colleague, a lover. There are four of them: Kevin Prichard, a young Jew with mystic tendencies whose desires and aspirations give the others great moments of unintended comedy; Harry Osborn III, a dilettante,educated and moneyed heir who measures his cunning against the prince's in long conversations about their vocations; Claire, the most charismatic of the Rosenbloom sisters, beautiful, independent, free, and Jean herself, noble, kind-hearted and discreet.