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Title: The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga, D. L. Smith ISBN: 1-56947-006-5 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Italy, a great story, and some intrigue. Wow!
Comment: When you combine Italy with a great story, it wins every time for me! This is a wonderful story about a young American woman who has her heart and soul in Italy. The characters in the book are so well described...from the ladies on the train to the top of Sandro's head. If you love Italy (especially Florence!) and love a good story that is slightly erotic, pick up a copy of this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: This was written by a MAN??
Comment: This was written by a MAN??
Wow, the fact that a man wrote this book will blow your slippers off.
In The Sixteen Pleasures, Margot, a young American book conservator, goes to Florence in 1966to offer assistance after the devastating flood that destroyed so much priceless art. But she has a secondary agenda: she's seeking passion, adventure, excitement. She gets her wish in spades when a nun places into her hands a pornographic volume bound as a prayer book. The novel could have stayed on the surface of this story, remaining nothing more than an adventure/romance. Author Hellenga, however, digs deeper, and readers come away with a great feeling for the city of Florence, for the art of book preservation, for wall frescoes, and for European city life.
Splendid.
Rating: 4
Summary: What were the Sixteen Pleasures?
Comment: This book had a wonderful start, and the main character was so well-defined. I loved her nostagic moments, and stories of her family and travels. I also liked the Italian lessons I got from the book. The premise of the book was quite fascinating--the "Mud Angels", and the book restoration and conservation. The convent scenes were also well-written, and I found myself very interested in the lives of these nuns. There were so many good things about the book, although there were a few sections of the book that I was unclear of what was going on, and what it had to do with the overall story... I loved her plan to help the convent's library, and escape the notice of the bishop.
On the back cover it states that she embarks on the "sixteen pleasures" mentioned in the book... with her "forbidden lover"... I thought this was too dramatic--Sandro was not forbidden, and she did not make a big deal about going through each of the pleasures as the back cover synopsis would have you think...
Overall a good book, although a little long in some places.
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Title: The FALL OF A SPARROW: A NOVEL by Robert Hellenga ISBN: 0684850273 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Blues Lessons: A Novel by Robert Hellenga ISBN: 0743225465 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Stones Of Florence (Illustrated Ed): Illustrated Edition by Mary McCarthy ISBN: 0156850818 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The School of Whoredom by Pietro Aretino, Rosa Maria Falvo, Alessandro Gallenzi ISBN: 1843910365 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, Giorgi Vasari ISBN: 019283410X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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