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Venice Revealed: An Intimate Portrait
by: Paolo Barbaro

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780285636354
ISBN: 0285636359
Label: Souvenir Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Souvenir Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 233
Publication Date: April 30, 2002
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Studio: Souvenir Press Ltd
Sales Rank: 29571

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Worth persevering with !
I started reading this just after a trip to Venice. I found the first chapter or so a struggle, my feeling is the translation from the Italian is a little odd and a number of times I had to re read sentences to work out what was being said.
However, I persisted and once i got used to the style I found the book evoked so many memories of the feel of Venice. It is not about the tourist sights, it tells you about the heart and soul of the city and as such I would recommend it to anyone who wants to dig below the gondolas and the glassware and get a little closer to what Venice is really about.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Poetic and beautiful
This is a fabulous book, written by a man who knows and understands Venice, its beauty, its faults, its fragile future. It gives depth to a stranger's understanding of a beautiful and intriguing place. it is superbly written and a must for anyone who has fallen in love with the city.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Strangely wonderful
This is a strangely wonderful book that offers a genuinely unique perspective on a subject that has almost disappeared under the weight of mediocre comment. It is passionate and intelligent. Poetic and accessible. The underlying narrative is fateful and sad but not just the usual, smug, fragile-city-dying stuff. It is a simple tale of man's conflicting capacity to create and neglect things of indescribable beauty. It's been a long time since someone has written something this worthwhile about Venice.

 



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