Download or read book My Tango With Barbara Strozzi written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently separated Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in Clerkenwell. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi (with whom Phil happens to be obsessed), to the point where Phil is no longer sure which is which... Navigating several London Underground lines and considerable planetary activity, Russell Hoban's intriguing romance tangos its way through a world of infidelity, artificial eyeballs, baseball bats and music - never missing a daring, seductive step.