Ebook {Epub PDF} The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. Sarah Dunant's gorgeous and mesmerizing novel, Birth of Venus, draws readers into a turbulent 15th-century Florence, a time when the lavish city, steeped in years of Medici family luxury, is suddenly besieged by plague, threat of invasion, and the righteous wrath of a fundamentalist monk. Dunant masterfully blends fact and fiction, seamlessly interweaving Florentine history with the coming-of-age /5(). · The Birth of Venus. by Sarah Dunant. pp, Little, Brown, £ Genre writing has provided fertile ground for feminist fiction. Detective stories, thrillers and historical novels have been Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Book review: "The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant I first knew Sarah Dunant as a broadcaster on late-night arts shows in the late s. It's funny how you remember some people - she always had very distinctive glasses. The Birth of Venus: A Novel (Reader's Circle) by Dunant, Sarah and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Sarah Dunant. Average rating · , ratings · 8, reviews · shelved , times. Showing 24 distinct works. sort by. popularity original publication year title average rating number of pages. The Birth of Venus. by. Sarah Dunant. avg rating — 99, ratings — published — 77 editions.
The Birth of Venus. by Sarah Dunant. 1. Alessandra has the will and the talent to paint. She does not have the training or the social opportunity. How far does The Birth of Venus explain why, in the great roll call of artistic geniuses of the Renaissance, there are no names of women? 2. The image of the serpent with a human head is a motif that runs through the novel in many different forms. The Birth of Venus. by Sarah Dunant. pp, Little, Brown, £ Genre writing has provided fertile ground for feminist fiction. Detective stories, thrillers and historical novels have been. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
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