Domino

AvRoss King

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Engelska, 2011

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By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome.After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano...

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-30
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781446466681
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Ross King is a renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books include Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, Leonardo and the Last Supper and Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies. His love of Renaissance Florence, which he has been studying, writing and lecturing about for over twenty years, made Vespasiano’s long-forgotten story – never written about before – an irresistible next subject. He lives just outside Oxford.

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"Fleshes out wildly and deliciously the Rabelaisian goings-on of London's finest" Independent "Domino sends you spinning into [an] utterly convincing world" Evening Standard "As unnerving as a magician's cupboard" The Times "Evokes engrossingly and brilliantly the sights, smells, language and manners of late eighteenth-century London" -- Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx "A fascinating and resplendent debut" Daily Telegraph