ACQUA ALTA.
por LEON, Donna
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Lond. Macmillan., 1996.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 343pp. Half-title page missing. Very good copy. 1st ed. Alta Acqua is the 5th book in the Commisario Guido Brunetti series by American Crime Author, Donna Leon. Inspired by a brutal period of mafia crime in Italy, Leon's Brunetti is a stickler for the law.
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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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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
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- Título
- ACQUA ALTA.
- Autor
- LEON, Donna
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- Usado
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- Lond. Macmillan.
- Data de publicação
- 1996.
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Our store is situated at Crows Nest on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, about a 10 minute drive north from the Sydney CBD, and also convenient to trains and buses. The route 320 bus from Sydney CBD will drop you off outside our door.
We have been members of ANZAAB for many years.
Peter is a Past-President of ANZAAB and has organised many of the ANZAAB Book Fairs held in the last two decades.
