| Stone Virgin Contributor(s): Unsworth, Barry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393313093 ISBN-13: 9780393313093 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 Annotation: 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 that of Chiara Litsov, a member of the Fornarini family. Raikes finds himself losing all moral grounding as his love for statue and woman intertwine in lust and murder. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |