Palladio: A Novel - Hardcover

Dee, Jonathan

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436 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038550179X ISBN 13: 9780385501798

Publisher: Doubleday, 2002

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A decade after being separated from the charismatic Molly Howe when she mysteriously vanishes, artist and advertising designer John Wheelright is reunited with her at Palladio, a Virginia artists' colony and antiadvertising agency led by the eccentric Malcolm Osbourne, in a novel that explores the stories of both characters in alternating chapters.

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Review:

A vastly impressive book. . . . Dee has given us a full rich cultural chronicle. (The New York Times Book Review.)

a beautifully constructed labyrinth which switches viewpoints, locations and decades without every losing tension or clarity. (Louise Welsh The Herald)

Palladio shocks, delights and invigorates. (The Seattle Times)

Pure literary entertainment . . . Palladio has narrative drive and energy, dramatic characters and conflicts, easygoing prose . . . humor and drama. (The Denver Post)

Dee unites a gripping love story with an ambitious novel of ideas. (Newsday)

Refreshing and creative. (Gazette and Herald)

Intelligent and provocative. (Sunday Times)

(A) masterpiece. (Good Book Guide.)

Book Description:

From the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling The Privileges.

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