Domino

Domino

by RossKing (Author)

Synopsis

By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome. After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 392
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Oct 2003

ISBN 10: 0099464551
ISBN 13: 9780099464556
Book Overview: 'Delivers a seamless coup. It has the pace of a thriller and black humour slivered with superb menace...be sure to read it' - Spectator

Media Reviews
Fleshes out wildly and deliciously the Rabelaisian goings-on of London's finest Independent Domino sends you spinning into [an] utterly convincing world Evening Standard As unnerving as a magician's cupboard The Times Evokes engrossingly and brilliantly the sights, smells, language and manners of late eighteenth-century London -- Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx A fascinating and resplendent debut Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Ross King is the author of Brunelleschi's Dome, a highly praised account of how the Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers in 2001), as well as The Judgement of Paris, Leonardo and the Last Supper and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling. He has also written two novels, Domino and Ex Libris. He lives in Oxford.