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Venetian Vespers: A Novel Audiobook
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A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me.
1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman—a hack, by his own description—marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch’s death, leads to her disinheritance.
The unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice to celebrate the New Year at the Palazzo Dioscuri, ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo. From their first moments in the mist-blanketed floating city, otherworldly occurrences begin to accumulate. Evelyn’s already jangled nerves fray further. Where has Laura disappeared to? How to explain the increasingly sinister circumstances closing around him? Could he be losing his mind?
Venetian Vespers is a haunting, atmospheric novel from one of the most sophisticated stylists of our time.
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“Creepily atmospheric…Family tensions, a vast fortune, a devastatingly lovely expat accompanied by her hard-drinking, insistently charming brother. But what emerges from the dark shadows of the plot is an even darker psychological portrait of a man forced to grapple with his own inner demons.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Bridgerton heartthrob Luke Thompson performs this novel with restraint, ensuring that the self-deluded first-person narrator is fully believable…Thompson makes this historical fiction an addictive listen. Winner of the Earphones Award.”
— Kirkus Audiobook Reviews
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Winner of the Earphones Award for Narration
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A New Yorker Magazine Pick
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A Sunday Times (London) Best Book of the Year
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An Irish Times Pick of the Year's Best Books
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Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Award
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About John Banville
John Banville, the author of numerous novels, has been the recipient of the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Nonino International Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Irish PEN Award, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He also writes nonfiction and plays.