The Silent Gondoliers
A Novel
$28.80
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2001
Summary
The return of a beloved classic, from the bestselling author of The Princess Bride!
“This inventive, offbeat fable has a touch of magic about it.” - Los Angeles Times
Once upon a time, the gondoliers of Venice possessed the finest voices in all the world. But, alas, few remember those days—and fewer still were ever blessed to hear such glorious singing. No one since has discovered the secret behind the sudden silence of the golden-voiced gondoliers. No one, it seems, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345442635 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345442636 |
| Author: | William Goldman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
“This inventive, offbeat fable has a touch of magic about it.”—Los Angeles Times“Where The Princess Bride was lightheartedly brutal, this story is gently whimsical, well-complemented by Paul Giovanopoulos’s zany drawings.”—San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
About The Author
William Goldman
William Goldman is an Academy Award-winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels.
His first novel, The Temple of Gold, was published in 1957. He followed this with the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole in 1961.
Goldman went on to write the screenplays for many acclaimed films, including:
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- All the President’s Men (1976) - for which he won two Academy Awards
He also adapted his own novels for the hit movies:
- Marathon Man (1976)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
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