Across the Bridge of Sighs
ISBN: 9780307424600
Wydanie: 2007 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the architect restoring the ancient palazzo of her husbands family. An ambitious gallery owner sells a young artists work faster than he can paint it. A salesman finds a way to trip up a narcissistic race car driver who seems to be able to get away with anything. As her characters negotiate the conflict between tradition and a rapidly changing city, Jane Turner Rylands draws us deep into a society all but unknown to outsiders.From the Trade Paperback edition.