The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
$36.06
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2003
Summary
An exquisitely written historical epic from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering, reissued in a beautiful new series style.
“Wonderfully written…a fascinating episode…which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus” - The Times
Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. We first encounter her in Paris, in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099436942 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099436949 |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting * Daily Telegraph *Wonderfully written…a fascinating episode…which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus * The Times *She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez * Observer *Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language… A dazzling circus of words * Guardian *Richness, texture, irony and razzle-dazzle are underpinned by a probing irony and a finely tuned historical sense… The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a star turn: what on earth will she do next? * Financial Times *Rich, flamboyant…dazzling with images * London Review of Books *
About The Author
Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other awards include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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