Venice by Peter Ackroyd
In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty.
Yet another wonderful biography of a city -- Lesley McDowell * The Independent on Sunday *
He is brilliant on beginnings.. Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and elegance * Independent on Sunday *
Ackroyd tells the story well...where he excels is in his descriptions...he writes beguilingly * Guardian *
Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than he... It is full of good things * Daily Telegraph *
Elegant... Interweaving psychogeographical investigation with history, picking out defining characteristics which were present from its earliest days * Scotsman *
He is brilliant on beginnings.. Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and elegance * Independent on Sunday *
Ackroyd tells the story well...where he excels is in his descriptions...he writes beguilingly * Guardian *
Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than he... It is full of good things * Daily Telegraph *
Elegant... Interweaving psychogeographical investigation with history, picking out defining characteristics which were present from its earliest days * Scotsman *
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099422563 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099422565 |
| Title | Venice |
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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