Snap Judgment: Books
Newsweek, October, 2005 by Anuj Desai, Jessica Coen
The City of Falling Angels By John Berendt
Unlike the author's previous book, the runaway hit "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," Berendt's latest reconstruction of a real-life mystery does not tinker with the truth. In this absorbing tale, he details the corruption-laced aftermath of the 1996 fire that demolished the Fenice opera house in Venice. The odd-bird expatriates, countesses, glassblowers and exterminators he interviews float through the narrative like they do the canals around town. And in the end, the city of Venice emerges as the true protagonist of this real-life opera.
--Anuj Desai
Tango: The Art History of Love By Robert Farris Thompson
Elegant, passionate, and stylish, the tango is more than a dance of sure movements and...
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