The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
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Author: Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunci n. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. 'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times
Author: Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunci n. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. 'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunci n. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. 'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times
Author: Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunci n. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. 'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch