Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"Fidelio" plot tweets



Playing around with using a tweet-length summary of my novelized version of Fidelio. Which, if any, of these would make you want to pick the book up and read more?

1. Savvy woman defies 18thC standards; infiltrates prison to find political dissident husband.
2. Political prisoner kidnapped and tortured; woman risks all to save him.
3. 896 days in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
4. Savvy woman defies 18thC standards; works to overthrow the system from inside to avenge her missing husband.
5. Husband & wife fight crime with Enlightenment ideals; risk death and madness to find each other.
6. Husband & wife fight crime with Enlightenment ideals, pitted against an enemy bent on destroying them both.
7. Savvy woman defies 18thC standards; works to avenge her husband by infiltrating the system.
8. Defying all odds, she infiltrates a notorious prison to find the man everyone claims is dead.
9. Is her husband is dead, why do all the clues point to his being alive?
10. Her man was kidnapped, beaten, and starved for his politics. She will bring about his enemy's downfall.
11. If you had the power to stop it, would you let them torture and kill the one you loved?
12. Two years missing. One year in disguise. Torment, love, tyranny, joy. "Fidelio".
13. A political prisoner. His tenacious wife. Torment, love, tyranny, joy. "Fidelio".
14. A political prisoner. His tenacious wife. Kidnapping, torment, love, tyranny, joy. "Fidelio". (I'm leaning on this one.)

And a really good one from Lucy at Opera Obsession: "Seville, 1790s: a dissident disappears. His wife won’t believe he’s dead. To search for the man she loves, she leaves everything she knows."

2 comments:

shapta-dakini said...

I go for 13. 14 would be snappier without the 'ing' on Kidnap - but for me the 4 nouns are enough and say it all..........

great photo.........

Kat said...

3, 8, 9, 12 are my favs