Palladio - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jonathan Dee (Paperback)

About the Book

When a secret is exposed and Molly Howe is cruelly ostracized, she escapes to Berkeley, where she finds a savior in a young art student named John Wheelwright. One day she disappears--again--not to be seen until a decade later in Manhattan, when John and she are both dawn to an eccentric advertising visionary. A Book Sense 76 Pick.

Review Quotes

"A vastly impressive book. . . . Dee has given us a full rich cultural chronicle." -The New York Times Book Review

"Pure literary entertainment . . . Palladio has narrative drive and energy, dramatic characters and conflicts, easygoing prose . . . humor and drama." -The Denver Post

"Dee unites a gripping love story with an ambitious novel of ideas." -Newsday

"In gorgeous language, hypnotic as a fairy tale . . . Palladio takes the moral temperature of our times." -Newark Star-Ledger

"Palladio shocks, delights and invigorates." -The Seattle Times

"Dee is always able to locate the abstract in the concrete. . . . A Tribeca studio or a small town abortion clinic or a Christian cultist sermon, are all equally interesting to him, and his clear, understated prose gives them a precise fictional life." -The Boston Phoenix

"Robustly imagined." -Time Out New York

"Dee perceptively explores the reciprocity of private manias and decadent social trends . . . dramatizing piquant questions of authenticity and mendacity, purity and depravity, leadership and despotism, love and manipulation." -Booklist

About the Author

Jonathan Dee is the author of The Lover of History, The Liberty Campaign, and St. Famous. He lives in New York City.