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Loading... Venetian Stories (edition 2004)by Jane Turner Rylands
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A series of interconnected glimpses into various lives, some rather predictable and others lightly mysterious. I found these slices of life engaging. Though not all characters were immediately likable you did see each person with the clear view that we are all made up of light and dark. Add in the setting of Venice and I spent a sick day engrossed in this little book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians– a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord – as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy. No library descriptions found. |
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