City Of Masks (Turtleback)

by Mary Hoffman (Author)

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Product Details

Turtleback: 344 pages
Publisher: Demco Media (Dec 8 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0606328491
ISBN-13: 978-0606328494
Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 327 g
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The first in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series, given a new lease of life with a dramatic and very commercial new cover look

Set in Talia, a parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, the narrative follows Lucien, who in our world is very ill. Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary, the notebook is the unexpected means that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world; a world that thrills to the delight of political intrigue and where a life can be snuffed out with a flash of a merlino blade. The city of Bellezza (Venice in our world) is astonishingly evoked, with a filmic eye to detail, from the sensuousness of silks and velvets, to the thrill and danger of assassination attempts both and foiled and successful.

The world of Talia is unforgettably and convincingly real. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Mary Hoffman is an acclaimed children's author and critic. She is the author of the internationally bestselling picture book Amazing Grace. The first three novels for Bloomsbury in the Stravaganza series have also been bestsellers. The fourth, Stravaganza: City of Secrets, is published in July 2008. She is a complete aficionado of Italy, and her latest novel, The Falconer's Knot, short-listed for The Guardian Fiction Award, is also set there. Mary is the editor of Armadillo, a children's literature review magazine. She has three grown-up children and lives with her husband in West Oxfordshire. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.