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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adult
Inscribed
NO
ISBN
9780375422324
Book Title
Venetian Stories
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
7.8 in
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Jane Turner Rylands
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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In these twelve wry and fascinating stories Jane Turner Rylands has brilliantly evoked the hidden and day-to-day life of one of Europe's most mysterious cities. The thoroughly engaging characters who are the focus of these stories are from different backgrounds and various Venetian neighborhoods, but their lives-and the stories-overlap and intersect in surprising and playful ways. We meet such workers as a postman, a gondolier, and a mason; and from a different circle, an architect, the mayor, a visitor (an American decorator), a contessa, a baronessa, and an English lord. There are avenging ghosts, a deceitful husband, and a fiendish mother among these. Through Rylands' eyes we observe the amusing quirks and habits of the natives as well as of outsiders who are absorbed into this very closed society with all its rivalries, petty jealousies, and hierarchies. For all its elegance and sophistication, Venice comes to life as a small town. Suddenly, we have a sense of what is happening behind the seemingly inscrutable Gothic façades of those timeworn palazzos lining the Grand Canal. These stories draw us into a complex, scheming, almost farcical society, but the poignant subtext is the profound fragility of a city with an uncertain future. Jane Turner Rylands has written a book that is as memorable and luminous as Venice itself.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375422323
ISBN-13
9780375422324
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2379949

Product Key Features

Book Title
Venetian Stories
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jane Turner Rylands
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Dewey Edition
21
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Of the thousands of books about Venice, very few tell us what it is like to live there. In these beautifully-written stories we see the city through the eyes of its residents, from countesses to postmen. I was captivated: a transatlantic flight passed in a flash. John Julius Norwich Jane Turner Rylands' Venetian Stories is terrific, guiding us with both affection and a shake of the head through a cast of charactersVenetian workers, middle-class folk, aristocats, even a giddy, disabused foreignerwith almost Dickensian relish. In the process, as lives cross and mingle and as co-incidence becomes fate, we are treated to many beautiful evocations of Venice itself, the various social worlds, the daily rituals, the sights and sounds of that ultimately wondrous and unreal city. A Robert Altman movie of criss-crossing narratives, Venetian Stories is also a collection of fastidious, old-world, Proust-like pratfalls. Henry Bromell
Lccn
2002-035674
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3618.Y38v4 2003
Copyright Date
2003

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