The Waters of Eternal Youth
by Leon, Donna
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0802124801
- ISBN 13
- 9780802124807
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Map of Venice on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 292 pages. A Commiissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, No. 25. In Donna Leons Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldnt remember a thing. Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patronessthe girls grandmotherasks Brunetti if he will investigate. Brunettis not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, it would surely have passed the statute of limitations. But out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked older woman, who happens to be his mother-in-laws best friend, he agrees. Brunetti soon finds himself unable to let the case rest, if indeed there is a case. Awash in the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Venetian life, from historical preservation, to housing, to new waves of African migrants, and the haunting story of a woman trapped in a damaged perpetual childhood, .
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- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 608562
- Title
- The Waters of Eternal Youth
- Author
- Leon, Donna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802124801
- ISBN 13
- 9780802124807
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, POLICE PROCEDURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Police Procedural;
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