Book description
'Dancer in Darkness is a unique three-way collaboration - the
tragic tale of the murdered Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, as
told in Renaissance Italian sources, then in The Duchess of Malfi,
John Webster's masterpiece of Jacobean revenge and fate, and now here
by David Stacton, the literally incomparable American historical
novelist. Black as stage velvet, Stacton's version is as full of
chilling insights and dreadful doings as Webster's, but at bottom all
his own.' John Crowley (Little, Big, Engine Summer) 'The prose of
David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor
in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong
sounds incessantly. Stacton's gong clashes are malevolent aphorisms,
asides spoken to Nemesis, hard little explanations of motive.' Time
