Miss Garnet's Angel

出版者:Penguin USA

作者:Vickers, Salley

页数:352

出版时间:2002-4

价格:117.00元

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780452282971

图书标签:小说威尼斯

After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest appartamento in Venice. An atheist, a Communist, and a virgin, Julia finds herself falling beneath the seductive spell of the city's intoxicating beauty and sensual religiosity. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo. Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption . . . and of one woman's transformation and epiphany. Already a bestseller in England, it is "novel-writing at its finest and most eloquent . . . splendid . . . the sort of book that effortlessly, like angels, or sunlight on Venice's rippling waterways, casts brightness and beauty into those private and most shadowed recesses of the human heart" (The Christian Science Monitor). "Vickers has taken myth, religion, and secular humanism, and turned them into substantial life-affirming fiction." (The Philadelphia Inquirer) "A refreshing, gentle story." (Anita Brookner)

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One star for Venice

One star for Venice

我可能理解不了这么深奥的小说…一个交际障碍的老阿姨在合租室友去世后去了威尼斯，在那里她同样遇到了几个怪胎并和这些陌生人成了朋友；一辈子共产主义无神论的她最后被教堂的雕塑画像和圣经故事弄的灵魂升华，在威尼斯平静地走了……

One star for Venice

我可能理解不了这么深奥的小说…一个交际障碍的老阿姨在合租室友去世后去了威尼斯，在那里她同样遇到了几个怪胎并和这些陌生人成了朋友；一辈子共产主义无神论的她最后被教堂的雕塑画像和圣经故事弄的灵魂升华，在威尼斯平静地走了……