{"product_id":"the-silver-book-by-olivia-laing","title":"The Silver Book by Olivia Laing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCasanova\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A young apprentice is just what he needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sweeps Nicholas to Rome and introduces him to the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCasanova\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s Venice will be ingeniously assembled. In the spring, the lovers move together to the set of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSalò\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Pasolini’s horrifying fable of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Nicholas has a secret, and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amid the rising tensions of Italy’s Years of Lead, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he doesn’t intend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlivia Laing’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silver Book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis at once a queer love story and a noirish thriller set in the dream factory of cinema. It is a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AuthorBio__author-bio__author-biography__WeqwH\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Garden Against Time. Their first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Prize and in they were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction. Their work has been translated into twenty-one languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52316188737845,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/silverbook.jpg?v=1770754684","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/the-silver-book-by-olivia-laing","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}