Giovanni's Gift - Softcover

Morrow, Bradford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140262938 ISBN 13: 9780140262933

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1998

Synopsis

When Grant hears of the violence against his family in the Rocky Mountains, he abandons Rome and his dying marriage to try and stop it, but only finds himself drawn into the darkness that surrounds the death of Giovanni, a close family friend

About this title

Review:

"Imagine a scene of rural serenity, a night scene." So begins the first chapter of Bradford Morrow's latest novel, Giovanni's Gift. However pastoral this start may seem, in a few short paragraphs, Morrow succeeds in shattering the peace as he sets up the central mystery of the book: an unknown trespasser conducts a campaign of terror against the inhabitants of a lonely farm somewhere in "the western mountains." Loud music blares in the middle of the night, phone lines are cut, an effigy hangs from an ash tree, a door is stolen--over the course of several months these and other random acts of harassment begin to wear on Henry and Edmé Fulton. Eventually, Edmé's nephew, Grant, arrives from Rome to help unravel the truth behind these increasingly disturbing events. Unfortunately , the mystery behind Giovanni's Gift begins to unravel for the reader long before the characters figure it out.

About the Author:

Bradford Morrow is a professor of literature and a Bard Center Fellow at Bard College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140262938
• ISBN 13: 9780140262933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336