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Stone Virgin
A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert, tries to restore her, he is swept under the statue's spell and swept under the spell of the seductive Chiara Litsov, a member of the Fornarini family now married to a famous sculptor. Raikes finds himself losing all moral grounding as his love for statue and woman intertwine in lust and murder.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 1995
- Pages: 318
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780393313093
- Categories: • Romance - Historical - General
About the Author
Unsworth, Barry: - Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.
Praise for this book
No brief synopsis could suggest the sinuous intricacy of Stone Virgin or the adroitness with which Barry Unsworth manipulates the weighty mysteries of love, death, creation, faith, evil and the lure of history.--Amanda Heller "Boston Globe"