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The Birth of Venus Sarah Dunant New Audio CD Abridged 5 Disc Historical Novel
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- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Narrator
- Jenny Sterlin
- Type
- Novel
- Features
- Abridged
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Run Time
- 6 Hours
- ISBN
- 9780739310533
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Birth of Venus
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739310534
ISBN-13
9780739310533
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6045882
Product Key Features
Book Title
Birth of Venus
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
4.9in.
Item Height
0.9in.
Item Width
5.6in.
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
5 Vols.
Edition Description
Abridged Edition
Reviews
"Simply amazing, so brilliantly written...almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant." Antonia Fraser "A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous...full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant's snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterlybut the experience is all pleasure." Simon Schama "Sarah Dunant has given us a story of sacrifice and betrayal, set during Florence's captivity under the fanatic Savonarola. She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher: juxtapositioning the humane against the animal, hope against fanaticism, creativity against destruction. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force." Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire "Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence: the squalor and brutality; the confidence and vitality; the political machinations. Her research has obviously been meticulous....A magnificent novel." The Telegraph (London) "It's to Dunant's credit that the vast quantities of historical information in this book are deployed so naturally and lightly....On the simplest level, this is an erotic and gripping thriller, but its intellectual excitement also comes from the way Dunant makes the art and philosophy of the period look new and dangerous again....Theology has rarely looked so sexy." The Independent (London) "No one should visit Tuscany this summer without this book. It is richly textured and driven by a thrillerish fever." The Times (London) "[Dunant's] control, pace, and instinct are well-nigh impeccable." The Financial Times From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Dewey Edition
22
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