Casanova in Love Paperback - 2000
by Andrew Miller
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- Title Casanova in Love
- Author Andrew Miller
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # G015600769XI4N00
- ISBN 9780156007696 / 015600769X
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-19565
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In 1763, at the age of thirty-eight, Giacomo Casanova arrives in England seeking a respite from his endless travels and liaisons. Before long, though, the lure of a pretty face proves too hard to resist, and Casanova reverts to his old ways as he pursues the dazzlingly beautiful Marie Charpillon. But is he the hunter, or the hunted? Soon we see a different Casanova, a man who may himself be the quarry as Charpillon and her family focus on his fortune. Andrew Miller, whose Ingenious Pain, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, was embraced by readers and reviewers for its marvelous imagination, paints a fascinating portrait of a decadent society in which youth and beauty form a precarious but powerful currency. A poignant and often comic portrait of a complex, charismatic man, Casanova in Love confirms the presence of an outstanding new novelist.
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THE DOOR OPENED: light washed in from the corridor.