- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; First Edition edition (7 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747549273
- ISBN-13: 978-0747549277
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,363,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amanda Prantera's Don Giovannais a sensible short novel about grand passions not quite happening, about a middle-class comfortable time and place in which delicate social comedy is more likely than grand lust and damnation. Put simply, the novel concerns a middle-aged literary man Henry who develops a crush on his set designer Joanna, a painter much deceived by her promiscuous lawyer husband, whilst producing an amateur version of Mozart's Don Giovanni for an Umbrian village festival.
Prantera is good on the imperfect understandings that exist between Chiantishire English and their Italian neighbours and partners, and on the emotional compromises of middle age; she also has a developed sense of the energies that go into artistic creation, and the particular pleasures to be found in amateur work even for professionals. This is a novel about opera that carefully sets off clearly differentiated character voices against each other. If at times the author is a little high-flown on the eternal transforming verities of Mozart's music, she is down to earth about messy emotions and mundane complications; she imitates Mozart to the extent of being as interested in the emotionally observant cleaner Amabile, who has problems of her own, as she is in Henry and Joanna. --Roz Kaveney
Daily Mail
'The perfect novel with which to pass the time on an Italian terrace.'
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The author displays such warmth towards all of the characters. Another gem from this inventive and experimental but consistently reliable author.
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Strong Writing, Engaging Storyline
10 Sep 2000
Format:Hardcover
Written in a style not too dissimilar from Poisonwood Bible, this thoroughly engaging novel is worth the read. Even if you are not a fan of the Opera, you can follow the well crafted storyline. If you are a fan of Italy and/or the Opera, even better!
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