Pippa Passes
by Rumer Godden
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Seventeen-year-old Pippa is one of the many dancers in the Corps de Ballet chosen to go on an Italian tour. In Venice, Pippa catches the eye of Nicolo, a young gondolier. With poignancy and perception, Godden makes Pippa's unforseen awakening to a more grown-up, complex world, vividly alive--where innocence can so easily be corrupted and new surroundings and experiences dazzle and contort with their intensity.Tags
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Read during Summer 2003
Perhaps it was because I was also so completely enchanted with Venice that I read this in nearly one sitting. I kept seeing flaws but I loved it anyway.
Perhaps it was because I was also so completely enchanted with Venice that I read this in nearly one sitting. I kept seeing flaws but I loved it anyway.
Well that was a weird little book. Really, it's almost exactly the same book as [b:A Company of Swans|963274|A Company of Swans|Eva Ibbotson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311649502s/963274.jpg|3271817] but with bonus Evil Lesbian and approx 63% less charm.
A typical Rumer Godden ballet books. But with all the fascination of Venice.
Pippa is startled to find herself chosen to dance with her ballet company on an international tour. While in Venice, she is selected to dance a special part designed with her in mind. She meets a handsome gondolier who hears her beautiful voice and decides she is perfect for his band. A delightful lark of a story.And I’ve had this book for a mere two years.
Not a favorite. Pippa was too shallow.
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Margaret Rumer Godden was born Dec. 10, 1907, in Sussex, England. She was nine months old when her family moved to India, where her father ran a shipping line. She returned to London at age 20 to learn how to teach dance to children, and opened a school back in India. Returning to England while she was pregnant, she wrote her first book, "Chinese show more Puzzle," published in 1936. Her marriage to a stockbroker, Laurence Sinclair Foster, ended in 1941, leaving her penniless. In an effort to pay off her former husband's debts, Godden moved her family into a mountain cottage where she ran a school, made herbal teas for sale, and wrote books. Another novel of India, "The River," published in 1949, was one of her most acclaimed books and was made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1951. She returned to England to stay in 1945. Rumer Godden was the author of more than 60 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, plays and non-fiction. She published her 21st novel, "Cromartie vs. the God Shiva," in 1997. Rumer Godden died a year later on November 8, 1998, in Thornhill, Scotland, at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Pippa Fane; Angharad Fullerton
- Important places
- Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Epigraph
- From Pippa Passes
The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven -
All... (show all)'s right with the world!
But...
Robert Browning - Dedication
- For E. Temple Thurston in gratitude for the book that Pippa - and I - read.
- First words
- 'May I have your attention everyone?'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Venice. Serenissima.'
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- English
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