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The
2005 Award
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The Marriage of the Sea by Jane Alison
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| In
a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his
body and his beloved city, and dreams up a way to hold mortality at bay.
In New York, Lach steps out into the crisp, clear night to savour his new
freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca, in Venice.
In rainy London, Max packs for a precipitous move to New Orleans, in pursuit
of Lucinde, a woman he barely knows. From New Orleans, Lucinde flies to
the aid and comfort of Vera, who, betrayal or no, has accepted a grant to
go paint in . . . Venice. And elsewhere in the Crescent City, Anton, leaving
to seek his big break in that other renowned city of water-Venice, of course-sketches
a good-bye upon the slumbering body of his wife, Josephine.
With wit, sympathy, and surpassing deftness, Jane Alison choreographs an intricate minuet among these characters, which love and loneliness, aspiration and desperation, have drawn to two famously romantic, venal, and elusive cities of water. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist. She lives in Germany. |
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