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Napoli, Donna Jo

The Wager

263 pp. | Holt | April, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-8781-9 $16.99
(2) YA Three years, three months, three days: that's how long playboy Don Giovanni agrees to forgo bathing, in his pact with the devil. Napoli sets her story in twelfth-century Sicily; against the backdrop of natural disasters (a tidal wave and earthquake resulting from Mount Etna's eruption), Don Giovanni's personal disasters grow increasingly, intriguingly complex. The tale coalesces into a first-rate survival story.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2010

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