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Set in Venice in the age of Voltaire, Casanova and Count Cagliostro, this tale of murder and deceit explores the darker side of Venetian life as well as evoking the splendour of its glittering facade. Young Signor Ludovico is a castrato opera singer struggling to live at the edge of society.
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392 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. From Venice In The Middle Years Of The 18th Century Comes A Sparkling And Labyrinthine Murder Mystery, Mingling The Serious And The Frivolous In The Truly Outrageous Spirit Of Rococo.
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Jim Williams' Scherzo takes us to the city of gondolas and masks in its most decadent period, to an 18th-century never-never land where dates and identities blur. Castrated as a boy to preserve his soprano voice for the church, Lodovico survives by singing, whoring and his wits. With a visiting French philosopher going by the name of Arouet, Lodovico finds the stabbed and disembowelled body of his employer's rival Signor Molin hanging from a bridge. Lodovico's troubles do not end there. He is pursued by Jesuit conspirators and a jealous madman obsessed with a blue velvet suit Lodovico has borrowed from his gigolo friend Giacomo (as with Arouet, Williams makes us guess at Giacomo's true identity).
As he shares in Arouet's investigation of the murder, Lodovico matches wits with the sharpest minds of his time and proves considerably more than the Watson-like narrator he at first appears. Williams has produced one of the more decorative historical thrillers of recent years and at the same time interestingly subverts the whole genre. After all, "scherzo" means "joke", and there are deep levels at which this is not a wholly serious book--"the solution to a mystery is not like the goal of a journey, and that it is the journey not the destination which enlightens us". The games intrinsic to thrillers are played with delicious frivolity. And yet, what is serious is the touching portrait of the vulnerable narrator Lodovico who gradually acquires self-respect amid the threats and contempt of his social superiors. --Roz Kaveney
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. 392 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. From Venice In The Middle Years Of The 18th Century Comes A Sparkling And Labyrinthine Murder Mystery, Mingling The Serious And The Frivolous In The Truly Outrageous Spirit Of Rococo. Seller Inventory # 038390
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 392 pages. Set in Venice in the age of Voltaire, Casanova and Count Cagliostro, SCHERZO is a gripping tale of murder, mystery and deceit which explores the darker side of Venetian life as well as evoking the splendour of its glittering facade. Youn. Seller Inventory # 1716o
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