![]() ![]() With wit, sympathy, and surpassing deftness, Jane Alison choreographs an intricate minuet among these characters, whom love and loneliness, aspiration and desperation, have drawn to two famously romantic, venal, and elusive cities of water. And elsewhere in the Crescent City, Anton, leaving to seek his big break in that other renowned city of water-Venice, of course-sketches a good-bye upon the slumbering body of his wife, Josephine. From New Orleans, Lucinde flies to the aid and comfort of Vera, who, betrayal or no, has accepted a grant to go paint in. In rainy London, Max packs for a precipitous move to New Orleans, in pursuit of Lucinde, a woman he barely knows. In New York, Lach steps out into the crisp, clear night to savor his new freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca, in Venice. In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city, and dreams up a way to hold mortality at bay. A real achievement.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Ambitious, complex, challengingly intellectual… a creation of real beauty…. ![]()
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