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`Casanova' wins you, for awhile
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Casanova in Love. By Andrew Miller. Harcourt Brace & Company.
272 pages. $23.
Giacomo Casanova, the man whose name is synonymous with sexual
adventure, is the main character in Andrew Miller's second novel,
"Casanova in Love." Based on real events, it's an amorous romp
unlike any other, for here the famed womanizer appears to have met
his match.
In 1763, having escaped (again) the long arm of the Venetian
Court, Casanova settles in England under an assumed name. There,
while ex...
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Tuesday books: Two lives of the greatest lover CASANOVA, OR THE ART OF HAPPINESS BY LYDIA FLEM, PENGUIN, pounds 12.99 CASANOVA BY ANDREW MILLER, SCEPTRE, pounds 14.99
The Independent - London
; "CAREFUL I have - fragile - mementoes," the aged, impecunious Casanova shouts as his portmanteau is thrown from a hotel balcony in Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real. Two new books, a novel and a free-wheeling biography, sift through the contents of that baggage. Both Andrew Miller and Lydia
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`Casanova in Love'
Chicago Sun-Times
; By Andrew Miller Harcourt Brace; $23, 270 pages If Andrew Miller's novel Casanova in Love is not entirely successful, it lingers in your head far longer than many novels that meet all their less-daring objectives. Miller sets himself an unusual task. Basing some of his writing on Casanova's own
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Casanova
The Washington Post
; ... a good day, could enter a woman's mind as he entered her body, who knew anatomy as well as any sculptor, who had studied the maps that chart the nerve forests, the blood lakes, the undulating savannahs of the skin, even he could not consider himself much ...
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BOOKS: The Books Interview: Andrew Miller - Beyond the pursuit of happiness Andrew Miller, ingenious explorer of the 18th century, now investigates our modern pains and pleasures. By James Urquhart
The Independent - London
; I struggle to imagine London underwater. The stinking hot August day clangs around me as I navigate West London to meet Andrew Miller, and yet I am reminded of the haunting final scene of his last novel, Casanova. The capital is flooded; the philanderer has floated quietly back to his Pall Mall
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
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KISS, KISS, WINK, WINK: A studly Heath Ledger romps and flirts in the clever 'Casanova'.(Movie Review)
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
; ... guilt -- at least for a couple of hours. Copyright (c) 2006, Detroit Free Press Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
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