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Garden of the Villa Mollini: and Other Stories | 
| Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 224546
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0099441993
EAN: 9780099441991
ASIN: 0099441993
Publication Date: May 1, 2003
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Not new, not lauded, but brillianty December 30, 1998
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This had been on my shelves for a while - bought because I know Tremain is excellent from past reads, too long ignored because of the restrictions of time. Yet this collection of short stories perfectly illustrates her astounding imagination, wide-reaching inspiration and skilful, understated prose. For students of short story writing this is a must - marvel at her deft management of character, setting, emotion and plot (never dull). It's a damned good read and, unlike other short story collections, you'll want to devour it in one go. The story from which the book takes its name follows the unsettling and insatiable appetites of a selfish 19th century opera singer who veers violently between lusting for plump and skinny women. Other stories describe the discovery of a couple's incestous secret, the tragic consequences of a woman's search into a martyr's life, the man who collects voices... Try it and you won't be disappointed.
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