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For twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a traveler, recently diagnosed with an incurable illness, writes a letter home to a friend. He describes the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made across northern Italy from Switzerland, while reflecting on questions of mortality, seduction, and the search for paradise. Against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, notably Mann's Death in Venice, Robert Dessaix creates a compelling and ultimately uplifting account of a life enriched by a heightened sense of mortality.
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Robert Dessaix is an essayist, translator, and literary commentator. He has edited Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Antholgy, and is the author of A Mother's Disgrace. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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