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Shylock''s Daughter: a Novel of Love in Venice

✍ Scribed by Erica Jong

Book ID
100140855
Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2013
Tongue
en-us
Weight
461 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1480438855

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✦ Synopsis

A modern-day actress finds herself transported back in history and into the arms of a passionate young bard in Erica Jong's sensuous spin on Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceA glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. For the aging but still beautiful actress, this ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting her with its history, its magic, and its mystery.Then one day, while strolling through the old Jewish quarter, she finds herself in a very different Venice--one that hasn't existed for five hundred years--as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly,...

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