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The silver book : a novel / Olivia Laing.
Van Pelt Library PR6112.A336 S55 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Laing Silver
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laing, Olivia, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rome (Italy)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Donati, Danilo--Fiction.
- Donati, Danilo.
- Fellini, Federico--Fiction.
- Fellini, Federico.
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975--Fiction.
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo.
- Cinecittà Studios (Rome, Italy)--Fiction.
- Cinecittà Studios (Rome, Italy).
- Artists--Fiction.
- Artists.
- Motion picture art directors--Fiction.
- Motion picture art directors.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Fiction.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--Italy--Fiction.
- Motion picture industry.
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Man-man relationships--Fiction.
- Man-man relationships.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Biographical fiction.
- Gay fiction
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Queer fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
- Summary:
- "It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini's Casanova. A young apprentice is just what he needs. He sweeps Nicholas to Rome and introduces him to the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where Casanova's Venice will be ingeniously assembled. In the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salò, Pasolini's horrifying fable of fascism. But Nicholas has a secret, and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amid the rising tensions of Italy's Years of Lead, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he doesn't intend." -- from the front cover.
- "It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini's Casanova. A young apprentice is just what he needs. He sweeps Nicholas to Rome and introduces him to the looking-glass world of Cinecitt̉, the studio where Casanova's Venice will be ingeniously assembled. In the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Saḷ, Pasolini's horrifying fable of fascism. But Nicholas has a secret, and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amid the rising tensions of Italy's Years of Lead, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he doesn't intend." -- from book flap.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374618315
- 0374618313
- OCLC:
- 1499230467
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