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The Floating Book

The Floating Book

by M . R . Lovric (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.48
Synopsis

Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer from Germany is setting up the first printing press in Venice and looking for the book that will make his fortune. A love triangle develops between Sosia, Wendelin's young editor, and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, a man who loves the crevices of the alphabet the way other men love the crevices of women. Before long, a dark magic begins to haunt Sosia and the printers: an obsessive nun and a book-hating priest conspire against them, and soon their fate hangs in the balance. For binding them all together is the poet Catullus - whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender erotic poems of antiquity.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 May 2003
ISBN 10: 184408003X
ISBN 13: 9781844080038

Media Reviews
'Of all the fictional lives of 2002, none is so covetable as that of Cecilia Cornaro' Times 'A lavish description of a sensual education that drips detail & drama' Elle 'Part love story, part lesson in aesthetics, part history lesson, this is a fascinating book' Tatler 'A truly sensual glide' L. St Aubin De Teran 'A dazzling baroque tale' Sun Tribune '..has brought Venice to life in all of its..glory' Hist. Nov Soc 'Elegant with witty turns of phrase' Melbourne Age Review 'Breathtaking' Marlena de Blasi, author of A Thousand Days in Venice 'Of all the fictional lives of 2002, none is so covetable as that of Cecilia Cornaro' Times 'A lavish description of a sensual education that drips detail & drama' Elle 'Part love story, part lesson in aesthetics, part history lesson, this is a fascinating book' Tatler 'A truly sensual glide' L. St Aubin De Teran 'A dazzling baroque tale' Sun Tribune '..has brought Venice to life in all of its..glory' Hist. Nov Soc 'Elegant with witty turns of phrase' Melbourne Age Review
Author Bio
Born in Australia of Serbian-Irish ancestry, Michelle Lovric is the author of CARNEVALE and a number of internationally bestselling anthologies, including LOVE LETTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PASSION. She lives in London and Venice.