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SERENISSIMA. A Novel of Venice, by Erica Jong. Houghton

Mifflin. 225 pp. $17.95.

Serenissima" is not a novel but a fantasy, the fantasy of a limited talent trying, hopelessly, to imagine what it would be like to serve as muse to genius. In Erica Jong's mind, this boils down to the central question "Was Will Shakespeare good in bed?"

Jong's fantasy tells the story of Jessica Pruitt, a 40ish actress who has come to Venice to serve on the jury of a film festival. Amid the vulgarity and turmoil of the present -- which Jong depicts with good-humored affinity -- she feels immortal longings. Jessica finds in the atmosphere and history of Venice correspondences to her own life as ...

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