02058cam a2200349 i 4500 2624334344 TxAuBib 20251120120000.0 250604s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024031981 9780593801161 HRD 30.00 0593801164 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Banville, John, 1945-, author. Venetian vespers [BOOK] / John Banville. First hardcover edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. 301 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . . 1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman—a hack, by his own description—marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch’s death, leads to her disinheritance. The unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice to celebrate the New Year at the Palazzo Dioscuri, ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo. From their first moments in the mist-blanketed floating city, otherworldly occurrences begin to accumulate. Evelyn’s already jangled nerves fray further. Where has Laura disappeared to? How to explain the increasingly sinister circumstances closing around him? Could he be losing his mind? ". 20251120. Married people Fiction. Newlyweds Fiction. Authors Fiction. Honeymoons Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Spouses Fiction. Venice (Italy) Fiction.