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Backstage: Stories Of A Writing Life
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A Memorable Collection Of Stories And Essays On Writing, Reading, Teaching, And Venice By The Celebrated Author Of The Bestselling Guido Brunetti Seriesdonna LeonS Memoir, Wandering Through Life, Gave Her Legions Of Fans A Colorful Tour Through Her Life, From Childhood In New Jersey To Adventures In China And Iran, To Her Love Of Venice And Opera. Nowhere, However, Did She Discuss Her Writing Life.In Backstage, Donna Reveals Her Admiration For, And Inspiration From, The Great Crime Novelists Ruth Rendell And Ross Macdonald, Examining Their Approach To Storytelling As She Dissects Her Favorite Books Of Theirs. She Expresses Her Love For Charles DickensS Great Expectations And Her Appreciation For Sir Walter ScottS Generosity Of Spirit. And She Chronicles The Amount Of Research She Undertakes To Be Able To Present Authentically, Through Guido Brunetti And His Colleagues, Places And Characters Far From Her Own ExperienceFrom Interviewing A Diamond Dealer In Venice To Open Up The World Of Blood Diamonds, To Meeting, Through Back Channels, A Courageous Sex Worker And WomenS Rights Activist To Depict Accurately The Trafficking Of Women In Italy. By Contrast, The Idea And Opening Scene Of One Of Her Novels Came To Her As She Was Walking Through Venice.Venice Is Central In Her Memory, Whether Recounting The SemiComic Irritation Of A Noisy Elderly Neighbor Or The Origins Of The CityS Carnevale. Her Teaching Career Yields Memorable Tales: Helping A Young Black Boy In A Newark, New Jersey, Elementary School; Instructing Young Iranian Pilots In English Just Before The 1979 Iranian Revolution; And Taking Her Students At A Swiss Private High School To The Famous Frank Zappa Concert In Montreux Interrupted By Fire.Throughout, She Is As Good A Storyteller About Herself As She Is A Chronicler Of Guido BrunettiS Crime Adventures. Readers Will Be As Caught Up In Her World As She Is In His.
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