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Title: The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant ISBN: 1-4000-6073-7 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (57 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Novel to Savor
Comment: Alessandra Cecchi is a young woman born into the Renaissance world of Florentine, Italy. The world of the Medici and Savonarola. Sarah Dunant has created a character of fiction but Alessandra breathes life and lives so fully it is as if the reader has a time machine to that long ago place. Dunant's words are golden and multi-hued painting the reader a vivid, living picture of the people of Florence. The book tells of Alessandra and her family. Her father is a cloth merchant. Her mother is a woman of grace and wisdom. She has two brothers, who are different from each other and from Alessandra. She has an older sister, but Alessandra is at odds with her siblings. She is a woman who longs to draw and paint in a city that celebrated learning, art and beauty until the rigorous religious fanaticism of Savonarola took over. A painter comes to paint the Cecchi family's chapel and there is a strange connection between Alessandra and the painter. Their lives move through a world of secrets and danger and the reader never wants the story to end. This is a beautiful, brilliantly constructed book to savor and to be read over and over.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Birth of Venus
Comment: I disagree with another reviewer in that this is strictly a "chick" book. I tend to run screaming from anything with a description such as that, and when my wife brought this home, I actually read it and enjoyed it. No, it's not a adventure, car chase, high energy-packed romp, but for what it was/is, I thought it was good. Actually, of the three books she's brought home recently (this one, Bark of the Dogwood, and The Da Vinci Code)I've liked each and every one. Then again, she does have excellent taste--after all, she married me! And she says I'm modest too.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining and forgetable
Comment: This is the perfect summer read - highly entertaining and highly forgetable. Even though I read this only a few months ago I barely remember the characters or plot however I did enjoy the book at the time. For memorable and moving reads - look elsewhere.
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Title: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0525947671 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Venetian Affair by ANDREA DI ROBILANT ISBN: 037541181X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife (Today Show Book Club #15) by Audrey Niffenegger ISBN: 1931561648 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Pompeii: A Novel by ROBERT HARRIS ISBN: 0679428895 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ISBN: 0671027360 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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