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Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life is a beautiful novel written by Donna Leon. The book was published on August 26, 2025 and is available in both PDF and EPUB formats. Below is the summary of “Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Donna Leon”:

An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humor and ironyDonna Leon’s memoir,Wandering through Life, gave her legions of fans a colorful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love of Venice and opera. Nowhere, however, did she discuss her writing life.InBackstage, Donna reveals her admiration for, and inspiration from, the great crime novelists Ruth Rendell and Ross Macdonald, examining their approach to storytelling as she dissects her favorite books of theirs. She expresses her love for Charles Dickens’sGreat Expectationsand her appreciation for Sir Walter Scott’s generosity of spirit. And she chronicles the amount of research she undertakes to be able to present authentically, through Guido Brunetti and his colleagues, places and characters far from her own experience, from interviewing a diamond dealer in Venice to open up the world of blood diamonds; to meeting, through back channels, a courageous sex worker and women’s rights activist to depict accurately the trafficking of women in Italy. By contrast, the idea and opening scene of one of her novels came to her as she was walking through Venice.Venice is central in her memory, whether recounting the semi-comic irritation of a noisy elderly neighbor or the origins of the city’s Carnevale. Her teaching career yields memorable helping a young Black boy in a Newark, New Jersey, elementary school; instructing young Iranian pilots in English just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and taking her students at a Swiss private high school to the famous Frank Zappa concert in Montreux interrupted by fire.Throughout, she is as good a storyteller about herself as she is a chronicler of Guido Brunetti’s crime adventures. Readers will be as caught up in her world as she is in his.

Details About Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Donna Leon – eBook

• Title: Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life
• Author: Donna Leon
• Language: English
• Genres: Memoir, Writing, Nonfiction, Biography
• Series:
• Published Date: August 26, 2025
• Status: Available for Download
• Formats: PDF/EPUB
• [EPUB] Filename: Backstage_Stories_of_a_Writing_Life_-_Donna_Leon.epub
• [PDF] Filename: Backstage_Stories_of_a_Writing_Life_-_Donna_Leon.pdf
• EPUB File Size: 0.49 MB
• PDF File Size: 1.08 MB

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