Once again, Berendt appears to be a magnet for the eccentrics who appear drawn to any notorious city. While peripherally an investigation into the causes of the Fenice fire, really this event only provides Berendt the setting around which to wrap a chronicle of the characters he meets in Venice. This catastrophic loss is soul-destroying for many Venetians and, fortuitously arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt chronicles the aftermath. Berendt’s legion of fan will be delighted to know that his familiar tone graces The City of Falling Angels, and readers will be quickly captured by the charms of Venice.Ĭity opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, the night a devastating fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. Readers felt as if they had traveled to Savannah, investigated the mystery themselves and knew the eccentric denizens intimately. What readers enjoyed most about Midnight is Berendt’s ability to capture a sense of place with words. Seven years later, Berendt presents readers with his long-awaited second book – The City of the Falling Angels. In 1999, John Berendt shot into the limelight with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a book that won him an unprecedented four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list.
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