{"product_id":"the-silver-book","title":"The Silver Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is September 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini s \u003ci\u003eCasanova\u003c\/i\u003e. A young and beautiful apprentice is just what he needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecitt , the studio where Casanova s Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of \u003ci\u003eSal \u003c\/i\u003e, Pasolini s horrifying fable of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst the rising tensions of Italy s Years of Lead , he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn t intend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silver Book\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema. It s a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eFormat: Oversize Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePublished: 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePages: 248\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eISBN 10: 0241783976\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eISBN 13: 9780241783979\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Olivia Laing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52056515117322,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780241783979.jpg?v=1761985059","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-silver-book","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}