![]() ![]() Two electricians were charged with setting the fire to disguise the fact that renovations to the theater were behind schedule. La Fenice reopened last November, eight years after it burned to the ground in 1996. "I'm not going through that again," he told the Times, although after extensive interviews he did reconstruct some scenes he did not witness. This tweaking of the facts may have cost the author a Pultizer Prize he was being considered for the award in 1995, until the prize committee asked about the narrative liberties he had taken.īerendt said that this book is all fact. The City of Falling Angels is full of such vignettes - digressions, mini-narratives, demi-portraits of the places wealth of characters, head cases, and. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. ![]() It is a nonfiction account of a murder in Savannah, but by his own admission, the author stage-managed some events for the sake of fluidity and narrative. ![]() The New York Times says the book contributed to a rise in tourism to Savannah, Georgia, the book's setting.Īccording to the Times, Berendt found himself in an awkward position when inquiries were made into the content of his last book. ![]() Berendt's previous book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sold over 2.5 million copies and inspired a movie. ![]()
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