Domino
King Ross
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Mandarein
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: Reprint
Description: 435 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Sweeping Through The Palaces, Opera Houses And Masquerade Halls, Nothing Is As It Appears.
Publishers Description: The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi’s Dome.After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel’s opera company fifty years earlier. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano.
ISBN: 0749396687
(130572)