This nonfiction novel about a celebrated Savannah murder case--an upper-crust antiques dealer was accused of shooting his male lover--is also a love song to the city of Savannah.
A murder in Savannah inspired John Berendt's previous book, the blockbuster bestseller MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. This time, the location is Venice, and the 1996 inferno which destroyed Venice's beloved opera house, La Fenice, serves as the touchstone for John Berendt's quirky exploration of the city and its most colorful inhabitants ...
This nonfiction novel about a celebrated Savannah murder case--an upper-crust antiques dealer was accused of shooting his male lover--is also a love song to the city of Savannah.
Spanning Baroque palace gardens in Vienna to an ancient city in the central Asian desert, this book includes brief discussions of each site. Published in association with the World Monuments Fund, the parent organization of the World Monuments Watch, this richly visual book will appeal to anyone interested in architecture, archaeology, and ...
This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. ...
With a Foreword by the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", this lavishly illustrated volume intimately explores the architecture and design of 20 of Savannah's most unique homes. 130 color photos.
Remembered movies...images from a dream...scenes from another world - the photographs of Rocky Schenck are endlessly evocative, though the photographer asserts that 'my approach is rather simple: I record on film what I see and what I feel as I travel through life'. Still, these haunting images are no mere reproductions of everyday reality. By ...
Absence of time, suspended lives, uterine worlds: these are the elements which make up the world of Angelo Musco. This collection of digital photographs is a sort of travelling diary to the centre of the world and beyond, with a range of subjects from New York to renaissance architecture.
Se cumplen ahora diez anos desde que John Berendt publicara su primer libro, "Medianoche en el jardin del bien y del mal," titulo que batio record al permanecer cuatro anos en la lista de libros mas vendidos del New York Times. La inimitable capacidad de Berendt para recrear lugares, convirtio Savannah, la ciudad retratada, en un lugar exotico que ...
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, and John Berendt is a master at seeking them ...
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