Bibliograph

My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon

Type

Label

My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My Venice and other essays

Oclc number

794709099

Responsibility statement

Donna Leon

Summary

The author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series presents more than fifty humorous, passionate, and insightful essays about her life in Venice that also explore her family history, her former life in New Jersey, and the idea of the Italian man

Table Of Contents

On Venice. My Venice ; On the beating heart of the city ; Garbage ; The casinò ; Gypsies ; Italian bureaucracy ; Diplomatic incident ; Non mangiare, ti fa male ; Miss Venice Hilton ; New neighbors ; The house from hell ; Shit ; Neighbor ; Tourists ; Da Giorgio ; On poor people -- On music. A bad hair night at the opera ; On beauty and freedom in the opera ; Confessions of an American Handel junkie ; Da capo (Callas) ; Anne Sofie von Otter ; Deformazione professionale -- On mankind and animals. Mice ; Hunters ; Gladys ; Cesare ; Badgers ; The woman from Dübendorf (Gastone) ; Tell me you forgive me, Professor Grzimek ; Moles ; Battle report ; Blitz ; My first time eating sheep's eyeball -- On men. Bosoms ; The Italian man ; Instincts ; Oh beautiful little foot ; It's a dick thing ; A trivial erotic game = okay, so I'm a Puritan ; I want a few good men ; The developer ; Saudi Arabia ; The New York man -- On America. My family ; Tomato empire ; My mother's funeral ; Fatties ; We'd all be hamburger, Ma'am ; On sprüngli and CNN ; The United States of Paranoia -- On books. E-mail monsters ; With Barbara Vine ; No tears for Lady Di ; Suggestions on writing the crime novel ; On dinner with an American physician

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