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Joanna Volpi knows that her handsome Italian husband is having yet another affair, but for the first time in her married life, she cannot bear to be in communication with him at all. This, Prantera's ninth novel, provides a drama of rivalry and revenge in the heart of the very opera it parallels.
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Amanda Prantera's Don Giovannais a sensible short novel about grand passions not quite happening, about a middle-class comfortable time and place in which delicate social comedy is more likely than grand lust and damnation. Put simply, the novel concerns a middle-aged literary man Henry who develops a crush on his set designer Joanna, a painter much deceived by her promiscuous lawyer husband, whilst producing an amateur version of Mozart's Don Giovanni for an Umbrian village festival.
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Prantera is good on the imperfect understandings that exist between Chiantishire English and their Italian neighbours and partners, and on the emotional compromises of middle age; she also has a developed sense of the energies that go into artistic creation, and the particular pleasures to be found in amateur work even for professionals. This is a novel about opera that carefully sets off clearly differentiated character voices against each other. If at times the author is a little high-flown on the eternal transforming verities of Mozart's music, she is down to earth about messy emotions and mundane complications; she imitates Mozart to the extent of being as interested in the emotionally observant cleaner Amabile, who has problems of her own, as she is in Henry and Joanna. --Roz Kaveney
'Don Giovanna is fun...at its best it sparkles like spumante.' -- Herald
'Prantera presents a world rich in farce, double-meanings and humour...delightful.' -- Glasgow Herald
'Prantera's novel is thouroughly charming entertainment, complete with wry finale.' -- Image
'The perfect novel with which to pass the time on an Italian terrace.' -- Daily Mail
'Prantera presents a world rich in farce, double-meanings and humour...delightful.' -- Glasgow Herald
'Prantera's novel is thouroughly charming entertainment, complete with wry finale.' -- Image
'The perfect novel with which to pass the time on an Italian terrace.' -- Daily Mail
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0747549273
- ISBN 13 9780747549277
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st UK Edition. Life begins to imitate art when a group of well-heeled expatriates, living in the Tuscan countryside, decide to stage an amateur production of Don Giovanni. Joanna Volpi knows that her handsome Italian husband is having yet another affair, but now she has had enough of her married life the way it is, and has a die of her own to cast. Author inscncription on title page. Signed by Authors. Seller Inventory # 038838
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