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Acqua Alta: A Guido Brunetti Mystery
by Donna Leon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060186518
- ISBN 13
- 9780060186517
- Seller
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About This Item
Dust Jacket: Blemish - Back panel. From a casual perspective, there appears to be a piece of celluloid tape attached. It is a missing piece of the publisher's acetate cover (photo). A complimentary clear protective Mylar cover is added to prevent further damage when handled by the new owner. Code # shows October, 1996. No flap clippings, original retail price still visible. The ISBN is still visible (photo).
Book: Blemishes - There is a minor mark or stain on the front board (photo) and a small chip on the bottom edge of the front board (photo).
The remainder of this book is clean, unmarred, strong and sturdy. No marks or entries. No page toning. The binding is firm and strong and this copy lies flat, plumb, and square.
Author: Taken from Wikipedia. Born in Montclair, New Jersey. The protaginist is the fictional hero, Commissario Guido Brunetti a Venetian detective. In 2003, she received the Corine Literature Prize.
Leon lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in a small village in Switzerland with a second home in Zurich. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College – Europe in Italy and taught English
Synopsis
A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. It was after a period in Saudi Arabia, which she found ‘damaging physically and spiritually’ that Donna decided to move to Venice, where she has now lived for over twenty years. Her debut as a crime fiction writer began as a joke: talking in a dressing room in Venice’s opera-house La Fenice after a performance, Donna and a singer friend were vilifying a particular German conductor. From the thought ‘why don’t we kill him?’ and discussion of when, where and how, the idea for Death at La Fenice took shape, and was completed over the next four months. Donna Leon is the crime reviewer for the London Sunday Times and is an opera expert. She has written the libretto for a comic opera, entitled Dona Gallina . Set in a chicken coop, and making use of existing baroque music, Donna Gallina was premiered in Innsbruck. Brigitte Fassbaender, one of the great mezzo-sopranos of our time, and now head of the Landestheater in Innsbruck, agreed to come out of retirement both to direct the opera and to play the part of the witch Azuneris (whose name combines the names of the two great Verdi villainesses Azucena and Amneris).
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- Bookseller
- Logos Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 539
- Title
- Acqua Alta
- Author
- Donna Leon
- Format/Binding
- Clothbound Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated 1st Edition,1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060186518
- ISBN 13
- 9780060186517
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October, 1996
- Pages
- 282
- Size
- 5.75" x 8.75"
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