Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099436942
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EAN: 9780099436942
Published: 20 Mar 2008
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 Ascuncion.
With the lavish imaginative richness of Marquez 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.
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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
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award - and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Her first work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, was published in 2004. The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize 2007.
