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San Bonifacio's Curse
David Blixt

Amazon, 2007

Early drafts of THE MASTER OF VERONA started very differently, focusing on the novel's villainous Count of San Bonifacio. When the opening changed, a good deal of the Count's backstory went away - and I've missed it. So I've rewritten that lost opening, adding and expanding until it was a window into the great man's mind, his dreams and the sense of injustice that was instilled in him from birth. Those elements combine to create SAN BONIFACIO'S ...

The Master of Verona

33 reviews
David Blixt

St. Martin's Press, 2007

An intelligent look at how it all could have happened.
When I first began this book, I thought I may have trouble keeping the characters and locations straight. However, within the first few pages, I was completely engrossed in the story and the lives of those portrayed. Blixt cleverly includes maps and a "cheat sheet" which describes the characters' relationships to one another, as well as which ones appear in history and in Shakespeare. The book is ...

Varnished Faces

2 reviews
David Blixt

Amazon, 2007

thank goodness for Amazon shorts...
I read Blixt's The Master of Verona when it first came out this past summer-- and I absolutely loved it. It was smart, fun, fascinating... everything you want in really good historical fiction. And the thought that the sequel won't be out for more than a year (I read that on Blixt's blog) was just heartbreaking. And then I found that he had written Varnished Faces-- what a great way to start ...

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