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Table of Contents About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Dedication {1} - AN EVENING IN VENICE {2} - DUST & ASHES {3} - AT WATER LEVEL {4} - SLEEPWALKING {5} - SLOW BURN {6} - THE RAT MAN OF TREVISO {7} - GLASS WARFARE {8} - EXPATRIATES: THE FIRST FAMILY {9} - THE LAST CANTO {10} - FOR A COUPLE OF BUCKS {11} - OPERA BUFFA {12} - BEWARE OF FALLING ANGELS {13} - THE MAN WHO LOVED OTHERS {14} - THE INFERNO REVISITED {15} - OPEN HOUSE GLOSSARY PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND COMPANIES NAMES OF BUILDINGS AND PLACES Acknowledgements Praise for The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt Voted one of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free-Press, Rocky Mountain News, The Baltimore Sun, The Salt Lake Tribune —Janet Maslin, The New York Times —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) —The Buffalo News —The Wall Street Journal “I cannot stop haunting travel Web sites in search of cheap fares to Italy. Angels is that good. . . . Berendt proves himself to be a masterful writer. . . . [He] crafts a lean and elegant narrative. . . . Berendt is that rare writer devoured by millions.”—USA Today —The Observer —Pages —The Miami Herald —St. Petersburg Times (Florida) “After Byron’s lascivious Venice, Henry James’s sepulchral Venice, and Thomas Mann’s sickly sweet Venice, is there room for yet another exhumation of the city’s corpse? Mr. Berendt proves that there is ... [in this] fast-paced, entertaining narrative that serves up course after course of human folly.”—The New York Sun —Orlando Sentinel —Edmonton Journal (Alberta) —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World —The Sunday Times (London) ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Berendt has been a columnist for Esquire, the editor of New York magazine, and the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. He lives in New York. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2005 Published in Penguin Books 2006 Copyright © High Water, Incorporated, 2005 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following selections: “Fragment (1966)” from The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968 by Ezra Pound. . “Ciao Cara” from Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher: Discretions by Mary de Rachewiltz. Copyright © 1971, 1975 by Mary de Rachewiltz. . Excerpt from the diary of Daniel Sargent Curtis. . “Dear [Sir]” letter from Olga Rudge to lawyer, April 24, 1988. . “Dearest Mother” letter from Mary de Rachewiltz to her mother, Olga Rudge, February 24, 1988. . eISBN : 978-1-436-28735-7 1. Venice (Italy)—Description and travel. 2. Venice (Italy)—Social life and customs. I. Title DG674.2.B47 2005 945’.31—dc22 2005047661 The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. http://us.penguingroup.com For Harold Hayes and Clay Felker BEWARE OF FALLING ANGELS —Sign posted outside the Santa Maria della Salute Church in Venice in the early 1970s, before restoration of its marble ornaments
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