By the Grand Canal - Couverture rigide

Riviere, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340770406 ISBN 13 : 9780340770405

Editeur : Sceptre, 2004

Synopsis

Hugh Thurne is a diplomat in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend's widow, Violet Mancroft, arrives in Venice from England. Violet is still absorbed by grief but she is also troubled by the direction her relationship with Hugh might now take. Violet is also preoccupied by anxiety for her son, Robert, who has fallen in love with Gloria Venier, a young Grand Canal girl. Unlike Violet, Giacomo Venier is amused by his daughter's fledgling relationship - but he is dying, leaving his wife Valentina to maintain their dilapidated palace and face financial ruin, and to bring up their teenage children alone. From the English coast to Venice and Britain's dominions in the East, this is a novel about empires and their crises, about the desolation and the hope after the Great War, about death, time and memory, and innocent - and less innocent - love. And it is a passionate study of the crisis of societies in peace and in war, and of the bewildering perversities of continually reawakening love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

William Riviere was born in 1954 and brought up in Norfolk. After leaving Cambridge, he spent several years in Venice, and later worked in Japan and travelled extensively around the Far East. He is the author of six previous novels: Watercolour Sky, A Venetian Theory of Heaven, Eros and Psyche, Borneo Fire, Echoes of War and Kate Caterina. He is married to a painter, and teaches at the University of Urbino in Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340770406
• ISBN 13: 9780340770405
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible