Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
Oct 2013 · Open Road Media
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In this “amazing tour de force,” an actress travels back in time and has an affair with William Shakespeare, from a #1 New York Times bestseller (Cosmopolitan).
An aging Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy, she hopes to escape her worries by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. The ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting Jessica with its history, its magic, and its mystery.
Then one day she finds herself in a very different Venice—one that hasn’t existed for five hundred years—as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly, Jessica has found a new beginning, a new audience—and, in the arms of a genius fledgling bard, a love affair more stimulating, satisfying, and liberating than any she will ever know, even five centuries on.
Originally published as Serenissima, this “hypnotic” novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Flying is delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time (The Washington Post Book World).
“Erica Jong can write a historical novel that both honors its tradition with affectionate parody and creates its own full fictional reality.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A sexy adventure story which is a real page turner.” —Ken Follett, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
An aging Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy, she hopes to escape her worries by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. The ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting Jessica with its history, its magic, and its mystery.
Then one day she finds herself in a very different Venice—one that hasn’t existed for five hundred years—as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly, Jessica has found a new beginning, a new audience—and, in the arms of a genius fledgling bard, a love affair more stimulating, satisfying, and liberating than any she will ever know, even five centuries on.
Originally published as Serenissima, this “hypnotic” novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Flying is delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time (The Washington Post Book World).
“Erica Jong can write a historical novel that both honors its tradition with affectionate parody and creates its own full fictional reality.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A sexy adventure story which is a real page turner.” —Ken Follett, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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DIVDIVErica Jong (b. 1942) was raised in New York City, where she first attracted attention as a poet, winning various awards for two volumes of verse published in the early 1970s. But she is best known forher first novel, Fear of Flying, which struck a chord with a country still reeling from the sexual revolution. Though it initially drew controversy for its frank depiction of female sexuality, it has sold more than eighteen million copies worldwide.
Jong followed Isadora Wing through three more novels: How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In addition to continuing to produce poetry, Jong has written historical fiction, most recently Sappho's Leap, and two memoirs, Fear of Fifty and Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life. /div/div
Jong followed Isadora Wing through three more novels: How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In addition to continuing to produce poetry, Jong has written historical fiction, most recently Sappho's Leap, and two memoirs, Fear of Fifty and Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life. /div/div
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