The Sixteen Pleasures Paperback - 1995
by Robert Hellenga
A national bestseller, this beautifully written novel of intrigue and erotica--set against the enchanting backdrop of Florence, Italy--will transport the reader into a lyrical, picturesque world. It is a rare gem of a novel about a woman who changes her life by taking an unforgettable trip to Florence.
From the jacket flap
""I was twenty-nine years old when the Arno flooded its banks on Friday 4 November 1966. On Tuesday I decided to go to Italy, to offer my services as a humble book conservator, to save whatever could be saved, including myself."
The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. For within its walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork: a sensuous volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings. Inspired to sample each of the ineffable sixteen pleasures, Margot embarks on the intrigue of a lifetime with a forbidden lover and the contraband volume--a sensual, life-altering journey of loss and rebirth in this exquisite novel of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
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- Title The Sixteen Pleasures
- Author Robert Hellenga
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Delta, New York
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9780385314695 / 0385314698
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7 x 5.28 x 0.89 in (17.78 x 13.41 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Romantic suspense fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 05/15/1995, Page 0
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