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by Vivien Shotwell
Set in Vienna, London and Italy, this debut novel is an aching, exhilarating love story between a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Mozart and a young English soprano named Anna Storace, based on one of the greatest stars of the day, for whom the composer wrote some of his most beautiful songs.
Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything-to be famous, to be loved-and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree young girl to a passionate young woman, and it is during this transformation that her affair with Mozart blossoms. The story of their love, no less powerful for being forbidden, is reminiscent of the passionate thwarted romances described in Loving Frank and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Written in melodious prose by a young author studying opera at Yale, Vienna Nocturne is a dramatic story of a woman's battle to find love and fame in an eighteenth-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.
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