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THE CITY OF FALLING ANGELS by John Berendt 2005 HC/DJ ~ 1st Ed 1st Print + Cover
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- “Excellent”
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Region
- Venice
- Type
- Hardback
- Publication Name
- The Penguin Press
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, 1st Printing, Clear Dust Jacket Cover
- ISBN
- 9781594200588
- Book Title
- City of Falling Angels
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Travel, Architecture, Social Science
- Topic
- Europe / Italy, Customs & Traditions, History / General
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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The author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants It was seven years ago that "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" achieved a record-breaking four-year run on "The New York Times" bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice-a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. "The City of Falling Angels" opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective-inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murdersuspect on their own; the first family of American expatriates that loses possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, partygoing Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning one another's motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others-stool pigeons, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, believers in Martians, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594200580
ISBN-13
9781594200588
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46575194
Product Key Features
Book Title
City of Falling Angels
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Italy, Customs & Traditions, History / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Travel, Architecture, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Dg674.2.B47 2005
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Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-047661
Dewey Decimal
945/.31
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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