Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon
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This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist
Many years ago, a sober-minded friend warned me off g…