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Venetian dreaming / Paula Weideger.
Van Pelt Library DG675.6 .W454 2002
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Van Pelt Library DG675.6 .W454 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weideger, Paula.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weideger, Paula.
- Venice.
- Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Venice (Italy).
- Weideger, Paula--Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
- Venice (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Italy.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 347 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- Who hasn't longed to escape to the enchanting canals and mysterious alleyways of Venice? Globetrotting writer Paula Weideger not only dreamed the dream, she actually took the leap. In Venetian Dreaming, she charts the course of her love affair with one of the world's most treasured cities. Weideger's search for living space eventually takes her to the world-famous Palazzo Dona dalle Rose, the last palace in Venice to be occupied continuously by the family who built it. She weaves the past lives of the family Dona with her own adventures as she threads her way through the labyrinth. The result is a wry and illuminating account of the once grand heritage and now imperiled future of Venice. We follow Weideger as she explores the Jewish Ghetto, the expatriate community, and the lives of locals from noblemen to boatmen. We learn how she makes peace with the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim and the ways in which Ishmael Merchant and James Ivory almost dislodged her from her home, and more. An intelligent work of tender insight, Venetian Dreaming puts a welcome twist on the traditional travel memoir.
- Contents:
- Points on the Compass 1
- 1. A Dice Game 3
- 2. The Launching Pad 12
- 3. In a Fog 22
- 4. The Bronxness of Venice 36
- 5. Lost and Found 52
- 6. Arriva! 67
- Drifting and Dreaming 79
- 7. Coming Up Roses 81
- 8. Getting Connected 95
- 9. Our Doge 110
- 10. The House of Good Neighbors 122
- 11. Social Dancing 132
- 12. Beginnings and Endings 144
- A Very Venetian Story 157
- 13. Peggy Guggenheim and I 159
- 14. A Merchant Ivory Production 169
- 15. Revisions 178
- 16. Hares and Tortoises 188
- 17. Battle Stations 199
- 18. Love or Money 214
- Venice Belongs to the World 227
- 19. Meeting Pinocchio 229
- 20. A Case of Mistaken Identity 239
- 21. Sliding Doors 250
- 22. Dead in Venice 260
- 23. Repeat Offenders 274
- 24. Higher Water 284
- Fans in February 293
- 25. Happy Christmas 295
- 26. Carmen Miranda and Friends 305
- 27. Making Waves 316
- 28. Fireworks 328.
- ISBN:
- 0671047299 :
- OCLC:
- 49908262
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