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Venice Experiment A Year of Trial and Error Living Abroad

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ISBN-10: 0983614105

ISBN-13: 9780983614104

Edition: 2011

Authors: Barry Frangipane, Ben Robbins

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Lured by Venice's colorful history and its labyrinth of walkways, canals, and bridges, Barry wanted to be more than just a tourist. He convinced his wife Debbie to join him in his Venice experiment, a one-year cultural immersion. Through their initiation into Venetian society, Debbie and Barry discovered the close-knit family of its inhabitants and the oddities of living in Venice, the improbable city built upon millions of tree trunks driven into the mud sixteen centuries ago. From the exasperating bureaucracy to high tides endangering their ground-floor apartment, these expatriates get far more than they bargained for. The quintessential storyteller, Barry Frangipane draws us into the…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Savory Adventures Publishing
Publication date: 7/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Barry Frangipane, a native of Florida, hosts luxury vacations to Italy. While he has read many Pulitzer Prize winning novels, this is his first attempt at writing one. He is very proud that his new book exemplifies the writing style of Ernest Hemingway, in that both of their books contain multiple words combined to form sentences, and occasionally even paragraphs. He knows Italian, French, and the names of many other languages.Ben Robbins, also a Florida native, has slightly better punctuation skills than his co-author. A writer most of his career, he is now a published author. He knows this because his name is on the cover of this book. When not writing books, he enjoys travelling with his…