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Venetian Stories by Jane Turner Rylands (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN-100375422323
- ISBN-139780375422324
- eBay Product ID (ePID)2379949
Product Key Features
- Book TitleVenetian Stories
- Number of Pages304 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- TopicShort Stories (Single Author)
- Publication Year2003
- GenreFiction
- AuthorJane Turner Rylands
- FormatHardcover
Dimensions
- Item Height1.2 in
- Item Weight14.6 Oz
- Item Length7.8 in
- Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
- Intended AudienceTrade
- LCCN2002-035674
- Dewey Edition21
- ReviewsOf the thousands of books about Venice, very few tell us what it is like to live there. In these beautifully-written stories we see the city through the eyes of its residents, from countesses to postmen. I was captivated: a transatlantic flight passed in a flash. John Julius Norwich Jane Turner Rylands' Venetian Stories is terrific, guiding us with both affection and a shake of the head through a cast of charactersVenetian workers, middle-class folk, aristocats, even a giddy, disabused foreignerwith almost Dickensian relish. In the process, as lives cross and mingle and as co-incidence becomes fate, we are treated to many beautiful evocations of Venice itself, the various social worlds, the daily rituals, the sights and sounds of that ultimately wondrous and unreal city. A Robert Altman movie of criss-crossing narratives, Venetian Stories is also a collection of fastidious, old-world, Proust-like pratfalls. Henry Bromell
- Dewey Decimal813/.6
- SynopsisIn 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 façades 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.
- LC Classification NumberPS3618.Y38V4 2003
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