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The Garden Of The Villa Mollini

The Garden Of The Villa Mollini

by RoseTremain (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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    Paperback 1988

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Synopsis

A stunning collection of stories: wide-reaching in subject and setting, each beautifully evoked and brilliantly imagined. Renowned opera singer Antonio Mollini begins construction on what he hopes will be the most beautiful garden in Italy, unaware that its development will have tragic consequence for both him, and his series of lovers. Elsewhere, a farmer's son has high hopes for his inheritance, a young girl dreams of following in the footsteps of a famous arsonist, and the pressure of the annual Gardening Cup exerts a heavy toll on seventeen-year-old Dougie.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 May 2003
ISBN 10: 0099441993
ISBN 13: 9780099441991
Book Overview: Beautifully rejacketed along with Rose Tremain's backlist titles in a stunning series style.

Media Reviews
Talented to the point of rare originality * Independent *
An expert at conveying the kind of apparently inconsequential detail that might be the moment of definition in someone's life * Times Literary Supplement *
The stories have a strange, fairy-tale quality: the simple, beautiful prose, the sense of inevitability, the use of allusion and metaphor to suggest undercurrents of disturbing portent -- Selina Hastings * Daily Telegraph *
Her talent is at its best * Susan Hill *
A quintessentially English writer - her work has a charm and finesse, a civilised irony * Guardian *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk