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Orlando in the Cities
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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781638219996
Publisher: Optimist Books by Optimist Creations
Published: Feb 23 2021
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A masterful blend of everything literature and history enthusiasts will love. - OnlineBookClub.org
With a delicious blend of prose, verse, and poetic syntax, author Sebastian Michael takes you on a wild rollercoaster spread across two millennia through monumental events that changed the course of history. ... Highly recommended.
- Pikasho Deka, Readers' Favourite (5 Stars)
Orlando, beautiful though lazy shepherd boy on Crete, is tasked by the gods to settle a dispute: who among them is patron of the most perfect city. His journey takes him to Alexandria where he studies under Euclid, to Florence, where he sits for a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, to London where he falls in love with a Russian princess; then, having inexplicably but assuredly turned woman, to Paris where she joins the women's march on Versailles, then to Vienna where she chooses to dress as a man while making the acquaintance of, among others, a curious Dr Freud and a very young Ludwig Wittgenstein, and finally, now once again as a man though experimenting with drag, to New York where he experiences the creative as well as destructive forces around Warhol's Factory; before, ultimately, timeless, ageless, and without gender or agenda Orlando becomes simply Orlando.
A playful literary odyssey through 2500 years of Western civilisation.
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