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Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017. Vinyl; content notes. "The City of Falling Angels" does its best to turn Venice into Savannah on stilts. "Papa!" please sign up Neither is The City of Falling Angels. Was searching my computer for music to listen to and stumbled across it. Venetian firemen depended on water pumped directly from the canals to put out fires. Marcello went back upstairs to his rooftop altana, this time fortified with a bottle of grappa, a video camera, and a bucket of water in case any of the airborne embers should happen to land on his roof. "Girolamo!" I picked up this book and bought it mainly because of my first memory of Venice. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. But eve as he gazed at the Barbaroâs painted walls and sculpted ceilings, James had in mind a very different sort of palace.â This different sort of palace was a derelict place inhabited by two lonely ladies. "They already knew about the fire," she said. New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/amazonui/loading/loading-4x._V1_.gif") 50% 50% no-repeat; Mayor Cacciari was a former Communist, a professor of philosophy and architecture at the University of Venice, and Italy's most highly regarded contemporary philosopher. It married a mystery with quirky characters, with history - all of the components that made "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" truly great. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Throughout its existence, the Fenice had been hallowed ground in the social landscape of Venice, and Girolamo Marcello had a broad knowledge of Venetian social history. 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