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...think the Obama administration wanted someone who is squeaky clean, and certainly Gary is a Boy Scout." - Paul Berendt, former Washington State Democratic Chairman, on Locke's fairly boring past (he actually was a Boy Scout), Seattle Times...
Where has John Berendt been for the past 11 years? It has been that long since he wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which spent four of those years on best-seller lists. The answer, apparently, is Venice. That makes sense: Where else could Berendt find the mix of rich gossip and Gothic calamity that made his portrait of Savannah, Ga., so fascinating...
...book, The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press; 414 pages), due out in September, Berendt's subject is the death not of a human being but of a building: Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice's 200-year-old gilded treasure chest of an opera house, which burned to the ground in 1996. Was it an accident or arson...
...Berendt's investigation gives him an excuse to hang out with an array of beguiling Venetians, including Count Girolamo Marcello, a wry nobleman who lives in a 600-year-old palace. "What is true? What is not true?" Count Marcello asks. "The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change ... That is the Venice effect." --By Lev Grossman...
...Weeks that John Berendt's hardcover Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list, tying the longest-lasting title in history, the 1950s book The Power of Positive Thinking...