A Time for Everything (Paperback)

from arubabookwoman

As a young boy in the early 16th century, Antonious Bellori came across two angels. These angels were not beatific; they were grotesque and frightening, with claws and ashen faces, and they were greedily gnawing on raw fish. The encounter compelled Bellori to devote the rest of his life to the st...

from soraxtm

This is the best novel i ever remember reading. It brings back my feeling that reading is the best most profound drug ever.

from arubabookwoman

As a young boy in the early 16th century, Antonious Bellori came across two angels. These angels were not beatific; they were grotesque and frightening, with claws and ashen faces, and they were greedily gnawing on raw fish. The encounter compelled Bellori to devote the rest of his life to the st...

from V.V.Harding

Several distinct stories come together, not always in ways that are clear, within the covers of the work described by Ingrid Rowland in the New York Review of Books as "strange, uneven, and marvelous" which is best taken with no value judgement implied in any of those words. The fictional Italian...

from omphalos02

Wonderfully inventive with its "angel treatise" and retelling of Biblical tales, this is unfortunately let down by the "coda" at the end that rambles quite a bit and bears only the thinnest (but fascinating) connection the the main part of the book.