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Casanova in Love

Casanova in Love Paperback - 2000

by Andrew Miller

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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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.

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“Stylishly recounted . . . Miller's limning of London in 1763 and 1764, with its acrid stenches and incessant rains, has the picturesque grunge of a Hogarth sketch."—Newsweek
“A lush, enthralling new novel . . . Evokes Casanova's amazingly complex life and paints a scintillating, evocative, erotic portrait of the eighteenth century and one of its major figures."—Detroit Free Press
"Miller's prose is jewelled; the heritage details—clothes, streets, interiors—have a haunting, graphic sheen."—The Times Literary Supplement (London)