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John Berendt

The City Of Falling Angels

Penguin Books (Sep 27, 2005)

9781594200588

| Hardcover

414 pages | 145 x 250 mm | English

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Dewey 945/.31

LC Classification DG674.2 .B47 2005

LC Control No. 2005047661

Subject

Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Europe / Italy
Venice (Italy)

Plot

Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 700,000 first printing.