![]() ![]() ![]() Seeking a new port in the wake of his first book’s runaway success, he traveled to Venice, described as “a place of melancholy, nostalgia, romance. Walking a fine line between thorough journalism and literature, “Falling Angels” will surely do for Venice tourism what “Midnight” did for Savannah.īerendt found the Venice story by accident. He focuses upon a calamity that opened the gilt-edged doors of a character-rich city while taking his time to get to the answer: Whodunit? Ultimately, a reader cares less about culpability than character, and Berendt is a master of exploring the lives of the eccentrics he meets along the way. WAS it the Mafia? An arsonist? Corrupt building contractors? Or city negligence? “There are no accidents,” whispers one female onlooker watching in horror the burning of Venice’s fabled La Fenice opera house in 1996 – thus setting the stage and providing the Greek chorus for author John Berendt’s long-awaited follow-up to his nonfiction best-seller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”įans of “Midnight” – which delved into the death of a young male hustler allegedly shot to death by a prominent gay Savannah antiques dealer – will be happy to know that Berendt utilizes many of the same storytelling devices he did in his enduring, decade-old mystery-travelogue. ![]()
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