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Synopsis
Jack Squire, in Venice on business, falls in love with Caterina Vendramin, and Jack soon finds that his mysterious new love, and the city itself, remind him of unresolved aspects of his life.
| Size | | Length: | 208 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Elizabeth lay panting on the steel table, her yellow eyes dark with fear."
Industry Reviews
"...Girardi suffuses his narrative with rich descriptions of the food, fashion, traditions and architecture of Venice. With this artful novel, he invites us to put aside our rational skepticism and enter a world where the past is still hauntingly present."
New York Times Book Review - Malachy Duffy (11/30/1997)
"Girardi elevates the commonplace theme of spirituality versus Mammon into a haunting fantasy."
Literary Review - Lisa Allardice (01/19/1998)
"For as long as the tale's dream state is sustained, the result is exquisite and eerie."
Bernstein
"[H]e has a good eye for the details which make the supernatural or flamboyant plausible....The sense of the gradual meltdown of [the hero's] life is precisely handled....There are moments of closely imagined strangeness....[T]he weirdness is balanced by the quotidian Venice..., a bourgeois city of baptisms and adultery."
Brownrigg
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