Venetian Vespers
A Novel
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Venetian Vespers
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Narrateur(s):
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Luke Thompson
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Auteur(s):
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John Banville
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A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me....
1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman—a hack, by his own description—marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch’s death, leads to her disinheritance.
The unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice to celebrate the New Year at the Palazzo Dioscuri, ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo. From their first moments at the palazzo, a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences begin to accumulate. Evelyn’s already frayed nerves disintegrate further: could it be the mist blanketing the floating city, or is he losing his mind?
Venetian Vespers is a haunting, atmospheric noir with a surprise around every cobwebbed corner: a fitting return by one of the most sophisticated stylists of our time.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Celebrated and virtuoso novelist Banville entwines his gift for historical crime fiction with his most cunning literary artistry in this fever-dream of a tale. . . . Banville is at his Jamesian finest in this beguiling novel of diabolical gambits.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred)
“An intricate puzzle investigating the erotic yet toxic relationship between a perfidious woman and her susceptible victim.” —Barbara Conaty, Library Journal
“An English writer and his secretive bride make a fateful visit to Italy in Banville’s eerie latest. . . . Will linger in readers’ minds. . . . He keeps the reader guessing.” —Publishers Weekly