![]() "Midnight" became known as the book that launched a thousand air-conditioned tour buses, not to mention the career of a previously unknown transvestite performer named Lady Chablis, who became the toast of the Elderhostel circuit. And although Savannahians welcomed the windfall of tourist dollars, the city's drowsy charm would never again be the same. It went on to sell more than two and a half million copies in hardcover and spent more than four years on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, a record that still stands. In 1994, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," the author's first book, was issued with a small initial print run and little advance publicity. Lest you doubt this dire prophecy, go ask around in Savannah, Ga. It has - most famously of all - resisted for more than a thousand years the waters of the Adriatic Sea, gnawing away at its very foundations.īut now, La Serenissima faces a challenge that may prove more indomitable than all of these: John Berendt has written a book about it. It has been occupied or besieged by the Lombards, the Austrians, the Nazis and Napoleon. ![]() ![]() ![]() VENICE, so far, has survived almost everything: wars, earthquakes, plagues, fires, literary pretentiousness and the sexual depredations of Lord Byron and Giovanni Giacomo Casanova. ![]()
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