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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101594200580

ISBN-139781594200588

eBay Product ID (ePID)46575194

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Book TitleCity of Falling Angels

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicEurope / Italy, Customs & Traditions, History / General

GenreTravel, Architecture, Social Science

AuthorJohn Berendt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-047661

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal945/.31

SynopsisThe 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., The author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" returns after a decade to offer, in his inimitable style, an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants., The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after a decade to offer, in his inimitable style, an intimate look at the magic, mystery, and decadence of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.

LC Classification NumberDG674.2.B47 2005

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by paulsloveitalls
Feb 06, 2018
The City of Falling Angels
Great Book, Great Conditions, Good reading.
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by mcgd_us_eyjups0y
Sep 21, 2022
Well written. Lot's of sub-plots
Well written. Lot's of sub-plots
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