The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Author: Enright, Anne

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 02-10-2003

Details: Product Description
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 Asunción.

With the lavish imaginative richness of Márquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's
Fitzcarraldo,
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.
Review
She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez ―
Observer

Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words ―
Guardian


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

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
About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected as
Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction,
Making Babies and five novels, including
The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize and
The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

EAN: 9780099436942

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English