Michelle Lovric, Author . Regan Books $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-057856-5
Numerous characters and plot lines spin through this historical romance, but the real star is 15th-century Venice, a "transparent floating book, where the pages are concepts visible in colour. Not a thing of the mind, but a piece of beauty...
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Michelle Lovric, Author . Regan $25.95 (441p) ISBN 978-0-06-083703-7
Set in London and Venice during the late 18th century, Lovric's labyrinthine, grandly imagined second novel (after The Floating City
) follows the dramatic vicissitudes of the love affair between the Venetian actress Mimosina Dolcezza and the...
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Michelle Lovric, Author Chicago Review Press $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55652-387-8
""Our marriage license turned out to be a learner's permit,"" quips Joan Rivers. And as for Joy Behar: ""Sure I want a man in my house, but not in my life."" In Women's Wicked Wit from Jane Austen to Roseanne Barr, Michelle Lovric (Love Letters:...
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Michelle Lovric. Delacorte, $17.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-90814-6
In the year 1899, the evil spirit of Venice's ancient enemy, Bajamonte Tiepolo, whose bones are buried deep in the Grand Canal, rises to seek revenge on the city that destroyed him centuries earlier. The mayor offers rational explanations for...
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Michelle Lovric. Bloomsbury, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-62040-014-2
Lovric’s inventive fifth novel (after The Book of Human Skin) follows seven Irish sisters on a journey sparked by an improbable nationwide fascination with their hair. The fatherless Swiney girls live in famine-struck County Kildare in 1865....
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Michelle Lovric, Author, Maggie Philo, Joint Author, Debbie Patterson, Photographer Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-55670-421-5
This appealingly designed portfolio, pack with instruction book and 75 embossed facsimiles of 19th-century cutouts for use in the 10 projects outlined, fails to deliver on the promise of its packaging. The paper cutouts and scraps are ample and...
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