Venice for Lovers by Louis Begley

Venice for Lovers by Louis Begley

Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley, the award-winning author of Wartime Lies, and his wife, the historian and writer Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and over the decades La Serenissima has become their second home. The owners of their favourite restaurants have become their friends and they share the lives of the locals, far off the beaten tourist track. Begley tells the story of how he fell in love with and in Venice, though as he makes clear when writing on Venice's pivotal role in world literature, he was not the only one - Henry James, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann are only three of his most illustrious predecessors. Muhlstein and Begley's Venice is a private view of a place which will forever inspire love and passion.

The experience of Venice is an intensely personal one, if only because la Serenissima is so mysterious and wins one over so completelythat is what we have tried to convey in our very different ways. We have also hoped to infect our readers with our own love for Venice, which runs very deep and has brought us great happiness. ANKA MUHLSTEIN & LOUIS BEGLEY

Louis Begley was born in Poland in 1933 and moved to New York to practise law in 1959. He is famous for his novel Wartime Lies. His wife Anka Muhlstein is a historian and author and has written several books, including Reine ephemeres. Meres perpetuelles (Temporary Queens - Eternal Mothers), published by Albin Michel in 2001. She has written several biographies, including a comparative one on Elizbeth I and Mary Stuart. She was honoured by the French Academy for her work on Cavelier de La Salle.

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ISBN 13	9781904341970
ISBN 10	1904341977
Titre	Venice for Lovers
Auteur	Louis Begley
Série	Armchair Traveller
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Année de publication	2005-08-18
Nombre de pages	216
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