英文原版小说 The City of Falling Angels 9品 John Berendt
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作者John Berendt
出版社Sceptre
ISBN9780340897775
出版时间2006-06
装帧平装
页数373页
货号hw41
上书时间2022-06-06
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Author:John Berendt
ISBN: 0340897775
EAN: 9780340897775
Publisher: Sceptre
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2006-06-05
The author ofMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evilreturns 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 thatMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evilachieved a record-breaking four-year run onThe New York Timesbestseller 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 Angelsopens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Venice 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 murder suspect 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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