The City of Falling Angels, (Paperback)

from LastThursdays

Very interesting, lots of insight into the upper echelons of Venice society. Very different culture to ours, very different way of life, no cars, lots of walking, never really trusting those around you, particularly anyone involved in bureacracy & the justice system. Full of interesting gossip, h...

from EmScape

This book produced the same sensation in me as a reader as Berendt's previous work, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil did, which is make me desperately desire to travel to the city in question. Berendt has a true talent for making a place come alive through both description of setting and i...

from weird_O

The City of Falling Angels is Venice. In this book, published in 2005, John Berendt gives Venice the same basic treatment he gave Savannah in a previous book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. He has a framework and a construction formula. Select a very interesting city, focus on a calamit...

from jburlinson

Quite enjoyable. Berendt visited Venice three days after the fire that all but destroyed the opera house La Fenice. So he made it his business to chronicle the events surrounding the burning, the investigation, the prosecution, and the rebuilding. This absorbing story is interspersed with vignett...

from fourbears

Venice is the city of falling angels-literally carvings falling off of buildings, possibly on your head if you weren't careful. The main focus of the book is the fire that burned the Fenice opera house, the reactions of Venetians and those from outsiders like the Americans in Save Venice, the non...