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The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi’s operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective–inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city– while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the course of his investigations,
Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking ‘suicide’ prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the First Family of American expatriates who lose possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, party-going Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning each other’s motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others–stool-pigeons, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, believers in Martians, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James.
- John Berendt - Author
- Holter Graham - Narrator
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- ISBN: 9780739346082
- File size: 370876 KB
- Release date: September 27, 2005
- Duration: 12:52:39
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- ISBN: 9780739346082
- File size: 371311 KB
- Release date: September 27, 2005
- Duration: 12:52:39
- Number of parts: 11
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