Gioconda
A Novel of Leonardo Da Vinci by Lucille
Turner
Publication
Date: August 1st 2012
Publisher
Granta Books
eBook
& Paperback; 304 Pages
Genre:
Historical Fiction
BLURB
In a world where everyone wants
to tell you how to think, what do you do when you know that they are wrong?
Anchiano 1452.
A boy is born to a father who will never understand him. Unless
he finds the power to become what he could be, he will remain what he is, the
son of a notary from a hamlet in the hills, nobody. As he grows up out of step
with everyone around him, Leonardo must follow his instincts if he is ever to
fulfil the vow he makes: to save people from each other — to save them from
themselves. But the time will come when he will have to make a choice.
Does he
share his knowledge and pay the price for it?
Or does he do what his hands have
always told him to do? Hide it.
He looks at his aching hands.
Runs them over his bony face and rough beard. How long before his body gives
up, and when it does, what of it? If he stops now, what will happen – will he
live more? What is more, more of what?
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Praise
"Gioconda
proposes an elegant solution to the problem of why the portrait of the wife of
a silk merchant was never delivered ... Gioconda is a qualified success,
scrupulous with its sources, careful with its conclusions." -Financial
Times
"An elegant, historical
debut novel... cleverly constructed and imagined ... full of vivid characters
and well-drawn incidents. Turner's careful research and graceful prose style
make Gioconda a pleasure to read." -Tina Jackson, Metro
"Renaissance man Leonardo da
Vinci's astonishing genius is brought to life in this vividly atmospheric novel.
From his solitary childhood to the conception of his iconic masterpiece, the
Mona Lisa, this richly imagined life story will inspire you to re-examine his
ideas, drawings and paintings." -Easy Living
"Lucille offers a fresh and
intimate perspective on da Vinci's life ...From the first page she draws the
reader in with such a natural easy style you feel you were observing Leonardo
da Vinci as he really was." -Bournemouth Echo
Author Info
Author of Gioconda, a novel about
the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucille Turner is an international prize-winning
novelist who lives between England and France. She has an MA in Comparative
Literature and teaches part-time at university in France.
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