“For Americans it’s something new for Italians it’s just not that exotic. “It was the same with ‘Under the Tuscan Sun,’ ” said a spokesman for Rizzoli, which published “Angels” here. You can read an excerpt from 'The City of Falling Angels' below. By the time the Fenice is rebuilt and reopened, Berendt has created an intricate picture of modern Venice. Which may explain why the book isn’t doing so fabulously there. 'The City of Falling Angels' begins with Berendts investigation into the fire that destroyed Venices famed opera house, the Fenice. “It was a serious story and he reduced it to gossip.” “He took the fire, an event that was critical for the city, and told it from a narrow point of view,” Mr. Then he was accused of trying to pass off fiction as fact now it’s more a case of over-embellishment. The problem is different than what plagued Berendt last time around. Angels is Berendts first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one. “Berendt captured some of them but not its soul.” before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. “His Venice is not our city,” said Cristiano Chiarot, the director of marketing and communications for La Fenice Opera, which figures prominently in the book. OK, that’s a bit harsh, but the sentiment sure seems to come through in Elisabetta Povoledo’s piece on how Venetians are receiving John Berendt’s newest book, CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS, which “tries to do for Venice what MIDNIGHT OF THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL did for Savannah.” But if that’s the case, the locals aren’t biting.
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