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In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians– a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord – as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy.
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Of the thousands of books about Venice, very few tell us what it is like to live there. In these beautifully-written stories we see the city through the eyes of its residents, from countesses to postmen. I was captivated: a transatlantic flight passed in a flash.
–John Julius Norwich
Jane Turner Rylands’ Venetian Stories is terrific, guiding us with both affection and a shake of the head through a cast of characters–Venetian workers, middle-class folk, aristocats, even a giddy, disabused foreigner–with almost Dickensian relish. In the process, as lives cross and mingle and as co-incidence becomes fate, we are treated to many beautiful evocations of Venice itself, the various social worlds, the daily rituals, the sights and sounds of that ultimately wondrous and unreal city. A Robert Altman movie of criss-crossing narratives, Venetian Stories is also a collection of fastidious, old-world, Proust-like pratfalls.
–Henry Bromell
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–John Julius Norwich
Jane Turner Rylands’ Venetian Stories is terrific, guiding us with both affection and a shake of the head through a cast of characters–Venetian workers, middle-class folk, aristocats, even a giddy, disabused foreigner–with almost Dickensian relish. In the process, as lives cross and mingle and as co-incidence becomes fate, we are treated to many beautiful evocations of Venice itself, the various social worlds, the daily rituals, the sights and sounds of that ultimately wondrous and unreal city. A Robert Altman movie of criss-crossing narratives, Venetian Stories is also a collection of fastidious, old-world, Proust-like pratfalls.
–Henry Bromell
Jane Turner Rylands grew up in Ohio and graduated from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. She taught English for the University of Maryland's European division for seventeen years. She has lived in Venice since 1973 and is married to Philip Rylands, the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
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- Publication date2004
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- ISBN 13 9781400032624
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