Vivaldi's Virgins
by:
Barbara Quick (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061460340 (0061460346)
Publish date: June 26th 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Art,
Music,
Italian Literature,
18th Century,
Musicians
I desperately wanted to enjoy this book as much as I did The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice. Unfortunately, it just wasn't as good.In this tale, our protagonist is Anna Maria del Violin, who was left at Venice's Ospedale de Pieta as a foundling. She is writing from her perspective as on...
Vivaldi’s Virgins is told from two view points. The first are the letters that Anna Maria is writing to her mother. These letters are written within the span of one year, when Anna is 14. The rest of the book is told from the view point of Anna Maria as a 40 year old woman, filling in the gaps that ...
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