From The Academy Bridge
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Venice, eternal and labyrinthine, becomes the living backdrop for P.M. Pasinetti's richly crafted novel From the Academy Bridge, a story that chronicles the lives, loves, and intellectual passions of Venetians navigating the turbulent crosscurrents of the twentieth century. With the same keen eye for social texture that distinguished Venetian Red and The Smile on the Face of the Lion, Pasinetti immerses the reader in a world where old patrician families and modern ambitions collide beneath the shadow of the iconic Accademia Bridge, tracing the emotional and cultural fault lines that define an era. Pasinetti, a native Venetian and distinguished scholar of Italian literature, writes with an insider's intimacy and a novelist's gift for rendering the specific weight of place and memory. His prose is precise yet atmospheric, capturing the way history sediments itself into the stones and conversations of a city that refuses to be merely picturesque. Steeped in the traditions of European literary fiction, From the Academy Bridge stands as a testament to the enduring power of place as character — and leaves the reader wondering whether any of its people can ever truly escape the city that made them.
Author: P.M. Pasinetti
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Venice, eternal and labyrinthine, becomes the living backdrop for P.M. Pasinetti's richly crafted novel From the Academy Bridge, a story that chronicles the lives, loves, and intellectual passions of Venetians navigating the turbulent crosscurrents of the twentieth century. With the same keen eye for social texture that distinguished Venetian Red and The Smile on the Face of the Lion, Pasinetti immerses the reader in a world where old patrician families and modern ambitions collide beneath the shadow of the iconic Accademia Bridge, tracing the emotional and cultural fault lines that define an era. Pasinetti, a native Venetian and distinguished scholar of Italian literature, writes with an insider's intimacy and a novelist's gift for rendering the specific weight of place and memory. His prose is precise yet atmospheric, capturing the way history sediments itself into the stones and conversations of a city that refuses to be merely picturesque. Steeped in the traditions of European literary fiction, From the Academy Bridge stands as a testament to the enduring power of place as character — and leaves the reader wondering whether any of its people can ever truly escape the city that made them.