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"""The artistic and personal world of 16th-century Venice is beautifully evoked in Wright's kaleidoscopic novella... Wright'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 Wright's dialogue-rich book... Wright 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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Jay Wright's work has been published with more than a dozen literary presses including Windriver Press's The Paumanok Review, Tachyon, Alternate Realities, Curve, Left Curve with readings at City Lights Bookstore, Cherry Bleeds and Duct Tape Press. He has also worked with Aardman and contributed to the Star Trek franchise, as well as several bestselling video games. His films and videos have appeared in the Biennial of Poetry and Video MUNAL. They are carried by Museo de Nacional in Mexico, the Vatican Contemporary, NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo in Spain, MAMAC Nice, Muséeacute;e d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, PS1 in New York and the Pompidou. His first novel King of Siam was published by Duct Tape Press. Invisible City, another novel which explores themes first presented in King of Siam was orphaned by Doubleday, but has found new life in the digital world. Exiles was attached to Bantam but was not published by them. He has been nominated for a Guggenheim and invited to Arsenal at the Berlin Film Festival and also to the Canary Islands and Florence Biennials, and won several best fest awards at film festivals. His films have also appeared at Cannes Short Film Corner and Clermont-Ferrand. His education includes UC Berkeley, and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute where he worked with members of Cinema 16 and Warhol's Factory.

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