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The artistic and personal world of 16th-century Venice is beautifully evoked in Johnson's kaleidoscopic novella... Johnson's Tintoretto is a wonderfully convincing fictional creation, an inspired combination of brilliance and a contemplative kind of pessimism...particularly Venetian mordant humor filters throughout Johnson's dialogue-rich book... Johnson also does a first-rate job succinctly painting the tense international background in which Venice is threatened both by the Habsburgs in the north and the Ottomans in the east. The whole thing is fast-paced and entirely satisfying. Recommended. - Historical Novel Society When a telescope arrives in Venice from the East, Jacopo Robusti, better known as the painter Tintoretto, is asked to examine and replicate it. In the winter of 1571 Cyprus has fallen. The Habsburgs press on the Venetian State from the north. War with the Ottoman Empire is coming to the seas.

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Previous publishing credits include the literary journals Paumanok Review, SN Review, Hoard Magazine, The Underwood Review, Curve Magazine, Duct Tape Press, Cherry Bleeds, and Left Curve - with a reading at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. His work (as filmmaker Jay Wright) has also been included in the Biennial of Poetry and Video at the Mexican National Museum of Art (MUNAL).

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