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The Innamorati
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312869243
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 031286924X
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: January 01, 2000
Publisher: Tor Books
Studio: Tor Books
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Editorial Review:
The frustrated in love know it, the barren women, the silent poets, the lustful priests--all those who suffer from cursed lives. By ones and twos, in carriages, on horseback, on foot, they flock to the Maze at the heart of the city Labirinto.Five pilgrims, with their enemies, their drinking buddies, and their chance-met companions, journey across a richly imagined Renaissance Italy alive with adventures and magic, to meet in the great Labyrinth. Their adventures grow ever more baroque, comical, and magical, until they reach the heart of the Maze, and perhaps, their hearts' desire.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - worth getting lost therein
Set in a vision of Renaissance Italy that brings to life the classic mythology of the area, the story focuses on the "curses" so often brought upon progtagonists by their own actions and biases. It is supposedly only through traversing the Maze featured in the story they can be cured -- except that none of the pilgrims who have entered in the many years since the Maze first appeared have ever emerged from it again. The plots and subplots are as labyrinthine as the Maze itself -- no simple tale of ... Read More
Rating:  - Amazing Maze of a Deeper Discovery
Instantly - I'm there.
"The morning sun rose above the edge of a quiet green sea. Bright rays of light speared the waters of the laguna and transformed the canals of Venice into ribbons of flame. Burnished water splashed over the mossy walls of the canals, scattering droplets the size of sequins..."
This kind of writing gets me everytime, and Midori Snyder has got it. She tantalizes the reader with each word, with every lush phrase, she seduces and entangles into the fantasy world of ... Read More
Rating: - almost Chaucerian
The setting : Renaissance Italy, various real and fictional cities.
The cast: (and here's the Chaucerian part): A mask-maker artist,
a priest, an actor, a merchant, a thief, a prostitute, a warrior,
a Siren (well.. that's not so Chaucerian). They come from all
walks of life, but all beset by some 'curse'. Thus they
pilgramage to a fictional city with a magical maze to cure
their woes.
The story starts off with very seperate tales.. almost too hard
to follow ... Read More
Rating: - Delicious Comedic Fantasy
Join a group of artists, performers, lovers and thieves to the maze in Labirinto. Along the way try on elaborate masks and find one that reveals your deepest desires. The characters burst with color and charisma. The food is mouthwatering and the scenery dazzling. You won't put the Innamorati down until you reach the center of the maze. Midori Snyder touches all emotions and leaves you hungering for more.
Rating: - entertaining allegory; some few awkwardnesses
Entertaining allegory about the masks we wear [for good or for ill], and the curses that we carry with us. The writing is uneven, but the awkwardnesses [for example, I wish the editor had taken a red pen to all those frequent and irrelevant descriptions of food] are far outweighed by the extraordinary and touching moments.
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