{"title":"Barbara Quick","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"vivaldis-virgins-lp-paperback","title":"Vivaldi's Virgins LP - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi--known as the Red Priest of Venice--is maestro and composer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA virtuoso performance in the tradition of\u003cem\u003e Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi--known as the Red Priest of Venice--is maestro and composer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Piet? as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA virtuoso performance in the tradition of\u003cem\u003e Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369158279391,"sku":"9780061285264","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZYkkVxy-LF9780061285264.webp?v=1789139260"},{"product_id":"vivaldis-virgins-paperback","title":"Vivaldi's Virgins - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the \"Red Priest,\" Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna Maria embarks on a journey of self-discovery that carries her into a wondrous and haunting world of music and spectacle, bringing eighteenth-century Venice magically to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the \"Red Priest,\" Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. 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Her fourth novel, \u003cem\u003eWhat Disappears, \u003c\/em\u003e is being launched by Regal House in 2022. Some of Barbara's poems have been recorded by Garrison Keillor and featured on \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Almanac.\u003c\/em\u003e She has been the featured guest on Grace Cavalieri's long-running program from the Library of Congress, \"The Poet and the Poem.\" Barbara's essays, poems and book reviews have been published in many periodicals, including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review, Newsweek, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eAnnals of Internal Medicine, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Humanistic Mathematics, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCanary, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eMonterey Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e and other literary journals, both print and online. Her poems have been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eThese Trees, \u003c\/em\u003e a large-format art book by photographer Ruthie Rosauer; \u003cem\u003eFire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California \u003c\/em\u003e(co-edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan for Scarlet Tanager Books); \u003cem\u003eFog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here \u003c\/em\u003e(Diane Frank, Editor, Blue Light Press); \u003cem\u003ePandemic Puzzle Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Diane Frank and Prartho Sereno, Editors, Blue Light Press). Based on a small farm and vineyard in the California Wine Country with her husband Wayne Roden, a vigneron and long-time violist with the San Francisco Symphony, Barbara takes Brazilian dance classes whenever possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Quick is a novelist of international reputation, and her skills are evident here, with characters we can believe; an atmosphere we can feel; and interior thoughts that deepen her observation. Every poem is a small story with personality and purpose- lines that flow like silk, holding words precise in every note. Quick gives us an island where we can go whenever we want to make beauty our own and rest in the company of flawless writing. Poetry has good reason to celebrate today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Praise the wisdom of the wanderers \/ who kiss the earth, at last \/ returning home,\" Barbara Quick tells us in the final poem of \u003cem\u003eThe Light on Sifnos\u003c\/em\u003e, and the reader feels satisfied with the rightness of the ending for such a beautifully rendered journey through light and dark, time and timelessness. In poems written as she read Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eQuick's language is as lyrical as it is accessible. While her dead are as vividly present as the living, her keen awareness of mortality doesn't interfere with the giddy release from the quotidian that travel can bring, as when she plunges naked into the Aegean to join her \"selkie mate.\" There's deep joy in these poems. There's also deep wisdom, fully deserving of praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eLynne Knight, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe haunting power of this collection is not epic, but Sapphic: mysteries rising from a handful of fragments gleaming in the sun. 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