The Floating Book - Softcover

Lovric, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060578572 ISBN 13: 9780060578572

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

Venice, 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. While Bruno and Felice become entwined in an obsessive love triangle with a beautiful Dalmatian woman named Sosia, Wendelin tempts the fates by publishing the first edition of the erotic Roman poems of Catullus -- a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change all of their lives forever.

The Floating Book is a ravishing novel of letters and lust, intrigue and betrayal -- a chillingly beautiful debut that few readers will soon forget.

About this title

Review:

Breathtaking (Marlena de Blasi, author of A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE)

A lavish description of a sensual education that drips detail & drama. (ELLE)

Part love story, part lesson in aesthetics, part history lesson, this is a fascinating book (TATLER)

'A truly sensual glide (LITERARY REVIEW)

Book Description:

* A stunning historical novel in the bestselling tradition of Isabel Allende and Umberto Eco

* An extraordinary recreation of the human drama behind one of the defining moments of western culture

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060578572
• ISBN 13: 9780060578572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 490