by Erica Jong · Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553174922
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«Serenissima» is Erica Jong's romance and historical fiction novel, published by Bantam Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Hollywood actress Jessica Pruitt, a jury member at the Venice Film Festival, suffers a fever that blurs the boundaries between present and past. Drawn into sixteenth-century Venice, she experiences a passionate romance with the young William Shakespeare and takes part in an adventure that spans time and the city's history.
The subtitle is 'a novel of Venice'. The work was originally published in 1987; this paperback edition appeared in July 1988.
For readers of historical romance and time-travel plots, with Renaissance Venice as the central setting.
Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. The Washington Post said in 2013 that it had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, while by 2022, The New York Times reported that worldwide sales of the book had increased to over 37 million copies.
