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Rent The Birth of Venus
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Nov 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 403
Synopsis
In 15th-century Florence, a young woman named Alessandra welcomes an arranged marriage to a cultured man over 30 years her senior because he promises her the freedom to pursue her painting. But the deal is not quite what she imagined. As Florence falls increasingly under the sway of Savanarola, Alessandra begins an affair with another young artist--and the city's violence and chaos lead the characters to the brink of disaster.
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Reviews
I really tried to like this book, but ultimately I could not even finish it. It was a little boring for me, I wanted the plot to advance more quickly. Had the story been advanced sooner, I could have withstood the period-appropriate-but-nevertheless-annoying chauvinistic attitudes of the men in the story, but at some point I felt that was all I was getting and I just put it down for good.