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'Lucy McBride, aged thirteen, is roused from a summer slumber one summer day by the haunting music coming from the stereo. It is a life changing moment and she devotes herself to the study of the cello - for "that", she decides, is what she wants to do with her life. This leads to a fascination, an obsession with the artist playing that music, Fortuny. She not only devotes herself to the cello, but Fortuny - the embodiment of the myth of the Romantic artist - "the most enchanting of myths" - and, at the age of twenty-three, goes to Venice to meet him. The novel then describes what happens when someone attempts to live out a dream.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Twilight in Venice is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride.
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Is This 'Rewriting of Things Past'?
2008
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— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2008; (p. 29) A column canvassing current literary news including information on Steven Carroll's re-writing of his 1998 novel The Lovesong of Lucy McBride. Steger also mentions two literary festivals to be held in Melbourne - Crime and Justice, and the Festival of Travel Writing.
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Is This 'Rewriting of Things Past'?
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2008; (p. 29) A column canvassing current literary news including information on Steven Carroll's re-writing of his 1998 novel The Lovesong of Lucy McBride. Steger also mentions two literary festivals to be held in Melbourne - Crime and Justice, and the Festival of Travel Writing.
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