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Venetian Stories Hardcover - 2003

by Jane Turner Rylands


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In these twelve wry and fascinating stories Jane Turner Rylands has brilliantly evoked the hidden and day-to-day life of one of Europe's most mysterious cities. The thoroughly engaging characters who are the focus of these stories are from different backgrounds and various Venetian neighborhoods, but their lives--and the stories--overlap and intersect in surprising and playful ways. We meet such workers as a postman, a gondolier, and a mason; and from a different circle, an architect, the mayor, a visitor (an American decorator), a contessa, a baronessa, and an English lord. There are avenging ghosts, a deceitful husband, and a fiendish mother among these.
Through Rylands' eyes we observe the amusing quirks and habits of the natives as well as of outsiders who are absorbed into this very closed society with all its rivalries, petty jealousies, and hierarchies. For all its elegance and sophistication, Venice comes to life as a small town. Suddenly, we have a sense of what is happening behind the seemingly inscrutable Gothic facades of those timeworn palazzos lining the Grand Canal. These stories draw us into a complex, scheming, almost farcical society, but the poignant subtext is the profound fragility of a city with an uncertain future. Jane Turner Rylands has written a book that is as memorable and luminous as Venice itself.

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  • Title Venetian Stories
  • Author Jane Turner Rylands
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
  • Date 2003-05
  • ISBN 9780375422324 / 0375422323
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.54 x 1.14 in (19.76 x 14.07 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Venice (Italy)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002035674
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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