The Birth of Venus.THE BIRTH OF VENUS. Sarah Dunant Sarah Dunant (born Linda Dunant 8 August, 1950, in London, England) is the author of many international bestsellers, most recently The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. . 2003/2004. Read by Kathe Mazur. 9-1,5 hour tapes. Books on Tape, 0-7366-9741-1, $90,00. Vinyl; plot notes. A Dunant blends fiction and mystery into a fascinating historical backdrop in this coming-of-age novel. It opens in a convent with the death of Sister Lucrezia and the discovery of her faked tumor and a bold serpent tattooed across her body. The first-person narrative
First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, using words and phrases involving "I" and "we". of Alessandra Cecchi that follows tells how the intelligent, strong-willed 14-year-old with an artist's vision and an unusually good education for a girl living at the end of the 15th century learns to live in a world where she doesn't fit in. The disjuncture dis·junc·ture n. Disjunction; disunion; separation. Noun 1. disjuncture - state of being disconnected disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction separation - the state of lacking unity increases as the vibrant world of Renaissance Florence under the Medici family Medici family Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and later Tuscany from c. 1430 to 1737. The family, noted for its often tyrannical rulers and its beneficent patrons of the arts, also provided the church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leo is suddenly transformed by invasion, drought, plague and the ascent to power of a repressive monk. Dunant neatly folds Alessandra's anachronistic a·nach·ro·nism n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. modern sensibility into the mores of her time. Mazur gives a well-paced reading in her clear, sweet voice. Graphic sexuality; tattoos are highly regarded. Jacqueline Edwards, Bedford, MA |
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