Changing heaven
/ by Jane Urquhart
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart Inc. , 1996, c1990
- 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Jane Urquhart takes the reader on a magical and daring voyage - one that leads from the English moors (where the memory of Emily Bronte is as dark as it is magical) to Venice and modern-day Toronto. Changing Heaven tells the store of Ann, a young Bronte scholar, and of her doomed love affair with Arthur, an art historian obsessed with Tintoretto. Interwoven with this is the tragic, parallel tale of Arianna Ether, a turn-of the-century balloonist in love with the brooding Jeremy. These are no simple love stories: for as in the paintings of Tintoretto, light and shadow themselves become palpable forces; and as in the novels of Bronte, love and its storms (literal and figurative) take on transcendent meaning.
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English moors----Fiction Love----Fiction
Venice (Italy)---Fiction Toronto (Ont.)----Fiction