The Sixteen Pleasures
by Robert Hellenga
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385314698
- ISBN 13
- 9780385314695
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
The Italians called them Mud Angels, the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. For within its walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork: a sensuous volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings.
Inspired to sample each of the ineffable sixteen pleasures, Margot embarks on the intrigue of a lifetime with a forbidden lover and the contraband volume--a sensual, life-altering journey of loss and rebirth in this exquisite novel of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
Synopsis
Robert Hellenga teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, six Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowships, an Illinois Arts Council Literacy Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ2253052
- Title
- The Sixteen Pleasures
- Author
- Robert Hellenga
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385314698
- ISBN 13
- 9780385314695
- Publisher
- Dell Pub.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- florence, arno, conservation, eroticism, erotic, books, book conservation, conservation, mud angels, italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;