Maria Valdemi
Autor de The Demon Lover
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Maria Valdemi
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Maria L. Valdemi
L Canizzaro - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-5-23
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- United States of America
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York City, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Stony Point, New York, USA
Hyde Park, New York, USA - Educación
- SUNY New Paltz
- Organizaciones
- L.A.C. Communications
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 17
- Popularidad
- #654,391
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 3
How to describe this story. I mean there are so many poor brooding vampire stories, and how its so awful to be immortally beautiful/rick. But this is one of the best that I've ever encountered. You won't find this book outside of a used bookstore, but if you see it, buy it. It has this incredible, formal, rich texture.
Now, I must mention that I was a literature major in college. I like books that quote. And oh, they quote and reference and sink into the richness that is literature.
At the beginning of the story, the Prince, Pavel Baranov and Marisa Gioia read Lermontov’s poem "The Demon", which is more than a little obscure, but wonderfully Russian and brooding. It is a poem which them permeates the rest of the book, as they talk about Keats, Shelley, Pushkin, Dante, well more writers than I can mention.
Not much happens. They go to nearby Genoa. Visit the seashore. Light candles for the dead. The Prince kills a fair number of people. Marisa is very sick. Dying. They both come to terms with who and what they are, what they will become, with love. All in this wonderful luminous language.… (más)