Vienna nocturne
by Vivien Shotwell
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0385678037
- ISBN 13
- 9780385678032
- Seller
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Lahore, Pakistan
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About This Item
Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree young girl to a passionate young woman, and it is during this transformation that her affair with Mozart blossoms. The story of their love, no less powerful for being forbidden, is reminiscent of the passionate thwarted romances described in Loving Frank and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Written in melodious prose by a young author studying opera at Yale, Vienna Nocturne is dramatic story of a woman's battle to find love and fame in an 18th-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.
Synopsis
Vivien Shotwell is a classically trained singer with degrees from Williams College, the Yale School of Music, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. As an undergraduate voice student at Williams, Shotwell first sang the beautiful aria “Non temer, amato bene” (“Don’t fear, greatly beloved”), which Mozart wrote for and performed with the young soprano Anna Storace, and knew she had to tell their story. A daughter of independent booksellers, Shotwell was born in Colorado, raised in Nova Scotia, and now divides her time between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New Haven, Connecticut. This is her first novel.
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- Booklicious (PK)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BKLS#6-1
- Title
- Vienna nocturne
- Author
- Vivien Shotwell
- Format/Binding
- Excellent condition.
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385678037
- ISBN 13
- 9780385678032
- Publisher
- Bond Street Books
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 289
- Size
- 6.57 x 1.04 x 9.56 inches
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