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Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley, the award-winning author of "Wartime Lies", and his wife, the historian and writer Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and over the decades La Serenissima has become their second home. The owners of their favourite restaurants have become their friends and they share the lives of the locals, far off the beaten tourist track. Begley tells the story of how he fell in love with and in Venice, though as he makes clear when writing on Venice's pivotal role in world literature, he was not the only one - Henry James, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann are only three of his most illustrious predecessors. Muhlstein and Begley's Venice is a private view of a place which will forever inspire love and passion.
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Louis Begley was born in Poland in 1933 and moved to New York to practise law in 1959. He is famous for his novel Wartime Lies. His wife Anka Muhlstein is a historian and author and has written several books, including Reine ephemeres. Meres perpetuelles (Temporary Queens - Eternal Mothers), published by Albin Michel in 2001. She has written several biographies, including a comparative one on Elizbeth I and Mary Stuart. She was honoured by the French Academy for her work on Cavelier de La Salle.
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Take two well-known writers, novelist Louis Begley and his biographer wife, Anka Muhlstein, give them two decades of summer writing in Venice, add their passion for food and skillful observations about local color, and you've got the makings for great listening. The promise is fulfilled with Malcolm Hillgartner's facile pronunciations, his ease in uniting three short pieces of different genres, and his liveliness, which will capture listeners whether they've experienced the magic of Venice or not. The production's wide variety includes Muhlstein's enticing descriptions of four Venetian restaurants and the owners who seduced the pair of appreciative diners; Begley's nonfiction accounts of Venice's power over Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann; and Begley's novella about a young man who parlays unrequited sex into an ardor for Venice. S.W. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherHaus Publishing Limited
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904341977
- ISBN 13 9781904341970
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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