About this title: Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780802118967ISBN:0802118968
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. very good condition clean pages fast shipping delivery with confirmation number, Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 278 p. Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009-04
ISBN-13:9780802118967ISBN:0802118968
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Gift quality 1st. Crisp clean hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Slight pucker of jacket edge at the top of the spine. Tight and square, sharp corners. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2009. Stated First American Edition with full number line. 278 pages. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-08
ISBN-13:9780802118967ISBN:0802118968
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780802118967. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780434019434ISBN:0434019437
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780434019441ISBN:0434019445
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: ARROW BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780434019434ISBN:0434019437
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 288 pages. At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, comissario bru*n*e*t*ti meets franca marinello, the wife of a prosperous ve*n*e*t*ian businessman. he's charmed-perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife paola-by her love of virgil and cicero, but shocked by her appearance. 1 map (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 2009-08-05
ISBN-13:9781410417152ISBN:1410417158
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781410417152. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Heinemann, London
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780434019434ISBN:0434019437
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Signed by Donna Leon directly to tille page. No inscription. As New. Unmarked. Square sharp corners. Pristine First Printing. Dust Jacket not price clipped, states GBP16.99; Brodart protected. Signed at the famed 1797 London Hatchards bookshop; with Hatchards page marker laid-in. Donna Leon is Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award. Venice. Commissario Brunetti. 278 pp. Fine as new signed copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780802118967ISBN:0802118968
Description: Good in good jacket. Bumped corners clean pages good condition overall minor shelf wear tight spine All new inventory received to basement All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. read more
Edition: US First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780802118967ISBN:0802118968
Description: Very Good/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 0802118968 NOT Ex-Library Pages unmarked. Very slight spine slant. Dust jacket glossy. Binding firm. read more
"I love Leon's characters--Venitian Police Commissioner Guido Brunetti, his colleagues, and his family. These relationships are well developed, believable, and crafted with humor and love. I was tired of her American bashing in previous book and happy that this quirk of the American-born ex-pat Leon was absent from this latest instalment. However, there does seem to be a pattern of developing one mystery quite thoroughly but then not resolving it. A secondary, or offshoot, mystery is usually resolved. Upon finishing this book, I remembered back to others that had left too many questions unanswered at the end of the book. I will continue to follow this series for the wonderful descriptions of Venice, Italian politics, and, as stated, the character development. Another down-side to her books is that the descriptions of the Italian cuisine drives me to the kitchen for a big pasta fix."
"A good mystery. Not everything is explained, much is hinted at --- as it seems is part of the Venetian culture. The violence and filth, corruption at all governmental levels that is taken for granted, and impending doom that the encrouchment of the various Mafia breeds, is woven into the story. Is Italy really this dark?"
"As an actual mystery story, I'd give it a 2. There is some 'mystery' but the Commissario never solves anything, all the answers are given to him. He doesn't even have his own computer to do his own research.
As a book on the social issues, environmental issues and corruption in Italy, it would be a 4.
"At once cynical and comforting, Leon's latest in her Brunetti series tackles consumerism, the politics of waste and economic corruption. Brunetti is still a thoughtful and moral man who yet has his faults, and his Venice is still - if barely - a living city coping with the same issues many cities do. As always, Leon's descriptions of Venice are wonderfully subtle, characterizing the city more through Brunetti's response to it than merely describing it. Her tribute to the Bridge of Sighs comparing its former use as a portal of imprisonment and execution to its current status as a tourist landmark sums up the true state of Venice and its wry acceptance of its fate.
Leon chooses to enlarge the relationship between Brunetti and his father-in-law, Count Falier, much the same way she has done with that between Brunetti and his mother-in-law, continuing her careful exploraion of secondary characters. Like her other novels, About Face ends with the original mystery being resolved, but with larger questions still unanswered. And yet, like the cup of camomile tea Brunetti drinks in the final chapter, About face is mild despite its astringency."
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