Stravaganza
Subtitle: City of Masks
By: Mary Hoffman.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780439651844
Subjects: Space and time -- Juvenile fiction.; Cancer -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to Belleza, a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Reading the future; title: Marriage with the sea; title: Scuola Mandoliera; title: Garden in the air; title: Stravaganti; title: Lagoon city; title: Doctor Death; title: Where beauty wears a mask; title: Jar of rainbows; title: Twelve towers; title: Bridge of boats; title: Hand of fortune; title: Two brothers; title: Death sentence; title: Bridge of Sighs; title: Language of lace; title: Glass room; title: Death of a duchess; title: Viva Bellezza!; title: Between worlds; title: Out of the shadows; title: Man in black; title: Epilogue: Carnival.