text: Mapping the Edge : A Novel | Sarah Dunant | Paperback | 9780375758614 | Bookish.comHOMERECOMMENDATIONSSUBJECTSBiographies & MemoirsBusinessChildren's BooksComics & Graphic NovelsCookbooks, Food & WineFiction & LiteratureHealth & WellnessHistory & PoliticsMind, Body & SpiritMysteries & ThrillersParenting & RelationshipsReligionRomanceSci-Fi & FantasySelf-ImprovementSports & RecreationTravelYoung Adults & TeensMY SHELVES0CHECKOUTRecommendationsSubjectsBiographies & MemoirsBusinessChildren's BooksComics & Graphic NovelsCookbooks, Food & WineFiction & LiteratureHealth & WellnessHistory & PoliticsMind, Body & SpiritMysteries & ThrillersParenting & RelationshipsReligionRomanceSci-Fi & FantasySelf-ImprovementSports & RecreationTravelYoung Adults & TeensMapping the EdgeA NovelBy Sarah Dunant (Author)Paperback published by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Random House Publishing Group)Paperback Free shipping $25+ orders
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Date: February 12, 2002Publisher: Random House Publishing Group$11.79More Buying OptionsONLINE STORESAmazonBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillioniBookstoreIndieBoundKobo AdvertisementEdit this PageRead a SampleLarger Imagehave you read it? rate it!(1 REVIEW)ADD TO MY SHELFWant To ReadCurrently ReadingI've Read Thismanage shelves ›Name CREATE SHELFShareMORE INFO ABOUT THIS BOOK:About This BookOther Books by the AuthorBookish RecommendsFavorite QuotesBook ReviewsRelated VideosAbout This BookAnna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn't return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes chillingly clear. In this dazzling work of suspense, Sarah Dunant interweaves parallel narratives that are stretched taut with tension even as they raise difficult questions about love, trust, and accountability. We are challenged, unnerved, and ultimately exhilarated as Dunant redefines the boundaries of the psychological thriller.Show lessAnna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn't return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes chillingly clear. In this dazzling work of suspense, Sarah Dunant interweaves parallel narratives that are stretched taut with tension even as they raise difficult questions about love, trust, and accountability. We are challenged, unnerved, and ultimately exhilarated as Dunant redefines the boundaries of the psychological thriller.Read more...Product DetailsPaperback (320 pages)Published: February 12, 2002Publisher: Random House Publishing GroupImprint: Random House Trade PaperbacksISBN: 9780375758614Other books bySarah Dunant(9)The Birth of VenusA NovelAlessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. From the Hardcover edition.Visit Book PageIn the Company of the CourtesanA NovelMy lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant's epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan's court. But Fiammetta and Bucino's greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all. A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world's greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the final page. From the Hardcover edition.Visit Book PageSacred HeartsA NovelThe year is 1570, and a new novice has just been forced into the Italian convent of Santa Caterina. Ripped by her family from the man she loves, sixteen-year-old Serafina is sharp and defiant. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl's cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, disorder and rebellion mount inside the convent, while beyond its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to impose a regime of oppression that threatens what little freedom the nuns have enjoyed. Acclaimed author Sarah Dunant brings the intricate Renaissance world compellingly to life in this rich, engrossing, multifaceted love story encompassing the passions of the flesh, the exultation of the spirit, and the deep, enduring power of friendship.Visit Book PageSnowstorms in a Hot ClimateA NovelMarla's best friend, Elly, left England two years ago on a soul-searching trip through South America. Except for receiving a few postcards, Marla has not heard from her since. Then, Marla receives a strange letter from Elly begging her to fly to New York. But the person Marla meets at the airport is a very different woman from the strong, carefree friend she remembers. Elly, now well-dressed and thin, has acquired a park-view apartment, a house in the Hamptons, and a charismatic, manipulative, cocaine-smuggling boyfriend named Lenny. As Marla tries to free her friend from the dual addictions of love and cocaine, she unravels a story of seduction and power in Columbia and of desire and betrayal in California. Caught in a web of deceptions, the threat of violence mounting around them, Marla decides to take on Lenny and his empire. But Lenny–like the drug he peddles–has no intention of letting Elly go.Visit Book Pageisbn9780375758614RelatedVideosDisplaying 0 of 0 resultsShow MoreFavorite QuotesFROM THIS BOOKThis book doesn't have any quotes yet. 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