The City of Falling Angels [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Berendt, John

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ISBN 10: 1594200580 ISBN 13: 9781594200588

Verlag: Penguin Group USA, 2005

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Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet, a surrealist painter, and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 700,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

John Berendt was born in New York in 1939 and graduated from Harvard University in 1961. While at Harvard, he was on the editorial board of the Harvard Lampoon. From 1961 to 1969, he was an associate editor at Esquire and later wrote for David Frost and Dick Cavett. Berendt served as editor of New York magazine from 1977 to 1979 and wrote a monthly column for Esquire from 1982 to 1994. Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was published in 1994 to great acclaim and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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• Verlag: Penguin Group USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1594200580
• ISBN 13: 9781594200588
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 414