Venetian Stories
by Jane Turner Rylands
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Author: Jane Turner RylandsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-11
ISBN: 1400032628
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Who is Jane Rylands???
Summary: 1 Stars
You may find John Berendt's (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) fascinating book of Venice today, The City of Falling Angels, a good place to look for an answer to the question.
Along with many other extraordinary stories of people and incidents proving truth stranger than fiction, Berendt's book includes interesting and detailed interviews with many Venetians and others regarding Jane Rylands. These interviews imply that Rylands over many years sought out and befriendly influential expatriates living in Venice who (a) were aged and may need care and, in the latter two cases were approaching senility, (b) had no relatives nearby to care for them on a regular basis, and (c) had valuable assets. These included, in order, former ambassador Sir Ashley Clarke, whose value was introductions to the English-speaking community of Venice; the famous eccentric Peggy Guggenheim; and Ezra Pound's long time mistress, Olga Rudge, mother of Pound's daughter and owner of the invaluable lifetime collection of Pound's correspondence.
The term used to describe Rylands by one person in Berendt's book was "selective gerontophile". The allegations of Rylands's diligent ingratiation with each of the above and her subsequent alleged actions as laid out in multiple interviews in Berendt's book are far more fascinating than her own book. Whether the implications in the comments reported by many who knew Rylands are true or not is for the reader to judge.
Summary of Venetian Stories
In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed - not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians- a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord - as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy.General Books
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