Michelle Lovric
Hardcover | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1930 Users | 251 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Book of Human Skin |
| ISBN: | 1408802244 (ISBN13: 9781408802243) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
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1784, Venice. Miniguillo Fasan claws his way out of his mother’s womb. The magnificent Palazzo Espagnol, built on New World drugs and silver, has an heir. Twelve years later Minguillo uncovers a threat to his inheritance: a sister. His jealousy will condemn her to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But she is not alone - aided by an irascible portrait-painter, a doctor obsessed with skin, and a cigar-smoking nun - Marcella pits her own fierce heart against Minguillo.Define Appertaining To Books The Book of Human Skin
| Title | : | The Book of Human Skin |
| Author | : | Michelle Lovric |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2010 by Bloomsbury UK |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Horror. Cultural. Italy. Adult. Writing. Books About Books |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 1930 Users | 251 ReviewsJudge Appertaining To Books The Book of Human Skin
It's a brilliantly written and conceived book - a story told by the various protagonists, from their points of view, in their voices. And the story is a wonderful yarn of old-fashioned evil pitted against old-fashioned good, but in such a way that it never deteriorates into bombastics or sentimentalities. Evil is truly evil and good isn't too squeaky clean either. From 18th century Venice to Arequipa in Peru the narrative takes us back to a time we can't quite imagine, and on the way we learnThe main reason I loved this was that it had a fantastic anti-hero as one of the main characters. I really enjoyed hoping he would get his come-uppance at the end and thinking about how it might be achieved (I'll leave to you read the book to find out whether those hopes were realised). Actually I thought all of the main characters were well described, but it was the anti-hero who really stood out for me. He was awful but compelling. I think it takes some skill to bring that off. The story was
1784, Venice. Minguillo Fasan claws his way out of his mothers womb. The magnifi cent Palazzo Espagnol, built on New World drugs and silver, has an heir. Twelve years later Minguillo uncovers a threat to his inheritance: a sister. His jealousy will condemn her to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But she is not alone, aided by an irascible portrait-painter, a doctor obsessed with skin and a cigar-smoking nun, Marcella pits her own fi erce heart against Minguillo."I invite the
Excellent. I really got into her books when I happened to pickup The Remedy. If youve ever wanted to travel in time read a Michelle Lovric book. You can see the grand canal and smell the streets of Venice and the corruption on the backstreets of London. True escapism. I emerged from the Remedy in a daze and thought "oh yeah im a wife and mother living in england!" I quickly longed to wander through venice again and picked up this book from my library. I loved it from the first page its the kind
I'm not sure about this.... I only got halfway through this and threw in the towel, which is very unlike me.I feel my biggest issue with this book was that the plot moved so slowly and was nowhere near as gory as I would imagine or like. It almost seemed that the gory bits were suggested more than detailed.I felt no affiliation with any of the characters. I just felt they were very black and white.I think the author tried to cram too much in, although the Napoleon element was linked to the
Difficult to put out of my mindMichelle Lovric has obviously put a huge effort into the research that she weaves into a carpet upon which the story can walk and play. This story is shocking, yet, in places, amusing. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that any reader would agree that the conclusions are satisfying.This story is so cleverly written, and the publishers have helped the author to present a unique style. There are five, very different narrators. The author gives them their
Oh my goodness, I have been swept away by this glorious book. It really is a dark gem: a captivating story, rich with historical details, and packed full of full of characters, incidents, ideas and images.The story is brought to life by an extraordinary cast of characters so vividly painted. There is a cruel villain, a resourceful heroine, a penniless lover, and a mad woman. There are servants who are loyal but powerless; and there are friends who cannot help as much as they might like but who
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