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  Venetian Stories (Paperback) By (author) Jane Turner Rylands

  

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  Short Description for Venetian StoriesIn these 12 wry and fascinating stories of a complex, scheming, almost farcical society, Rylands has brilliantly evoked the hidden and day-to-day life of one of Europe's most mysterious cities of profound fragility and an uncertain future.
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  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Published: 11 May 2004
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781400032624 ISBN 10: 1400032628
  • Sales rank: 379,072

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Full description for Venetian Stories

• In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians– a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord – as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy.