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BY THE GRAND CANAL

by | Read by Simon Vance

Fiction • 6.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2004

BY THE GRAND CANAL is an atmosphere in search of a plot. For atmosphere it’s hard to do better than Venice, and casting the story at the close of WWI hardly alters things for Venice-lovers, as few cities can have changed so little in a century. Simon Vance does his best with stork-like Brit Hugh Thurne; his impecunious Venetian friends, the Veniers, in their threadbare palazzo; the two attractive Venier children; Thurn’s operatic mistress, Emanuela; and Violet, the widow of Hugh’s best friend. But Vance’s female voices are unconvincing, Fenice is alternately pronounced “Feneese” and” Fenee-tchay” (why?), and the pace is slow to the point of slack. Pretty thin gruel. B.G. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 06]

Library Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2005

CS ISBN $44.95 • Five cassettes

CD ISBN $45.00 • Five CDs

MP3-CD ISBN $29.95 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN $20.97

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Library Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2005

CS ISBN $44.95 • Five cassettes

CD ISBN $45.00 • Five CDs

MP3-CD ISBN $29.95 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN $20.97

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