The Floating Book

Informationen zum Autor Michelle Lovric is the winner of the London Arts Writer's Award, the editor of the New York Times bestseller Love Letters , and the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Floating Book . She divides her time between Venice and London, where she lives in a Venetian-style setting on the Thames near Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Klappentext Venice, 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. While Bruno and Felice become entwined in an obsessive love triangle with a beautiful Dalmatian woman named Sosia, Wendelin tempts the fates by publishing the first edition of the erotic Roman poems of Catullus -- a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change all of their lives forever. The Floating Book is a ravishing novel of letters and lust, intrigue and betrayal -- a chillingly beautiful debut that few readers will soon forget. Zusammenfassung Venice! 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano! he starts the city's first printing press. While Bruno and Felice become entwined in an obsessive love triangle with a beautiful Dalmatian woman named Sosia! Wendelin tempts the fates by publishing the first edition of the erotic Roman poems of Catullus -- a move that will enrage the church! scandalize the city! and change all of their lives forever. The Floating Book is a ravishing novel of letters and lust! intrigue and betrayal -- a chillingly beautiful debut that few readers will soon forget.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Lovric
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780060578572
• ISBN: 978-0-06-057857-2
• No. of pages: 490
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Historical fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Fiction: general and literary, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Victorian, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Medieval, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Historical / Renaissance, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Gilded Age, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Renaissance