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    The Rising Tide
    The Rising Tide
    The Rising Tide
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    The Rising Tide

    By Mark Frutkin

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    Rumours of the Second Coming of Christ abound in the City of Masks. Michele Archenti, publisher, former priest, and current confidant to the mysterious skeleton-bearer Rodolpho, finds himself swept away by a rising tide of politics, ambition and lust in eighteenth-century Venice.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherporcupinequill
    Release dateMay 28, 2018
    ISBN9780889848528
    The Rising Tide
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    Mark Frutkin

    Mark Frutkin is an award-winning fiction author whose most recent novel, Fabrizio's Return, won the Trillium and Sunburst Awards and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean Region). In 2008 he published a memoir, Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush. He lives in Ottawa.

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