News from Paraguay, The - Softcover

Tuck, Lily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060934867 ISBN 13: 9780060934866

Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2022

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Book by Tuck Lily

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"Charming."--Vogue

"Decorous detail and vivid imagery."--Los Angeles Times

"Impressively researched, lushly written... a splendid realization if its rich subject and Tuck's best so far."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Tuck's prose is elegant, the subject well researched."--New York Times Book Review

"Compelling...the stuff that good fiction is made of: complex characters and an intricate narrative."--Newsday

"THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY captures the physical beauty of an exotic land in Tuck's characteristically exact, evocative prose."--Publishers Weekly

"The episodic style achieves many lovely moments...images are so vivid you can almost smell them."--Washington Post Book World

"The perfect setting for Tuck's dark wit."--The New Yorker

"Vivid, intriguing . . . Tuck brings to life the lush, sensual, and brutal world of 19th-century Paraguay."--Entertainment Weekly

"Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... Tuck brings characters fully to life."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

Reseña del editor:

Pursued by the future dictator of nineteenth-century Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation and displacement in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization in the wake of her lover's arrogant ambitions. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0060934867
• ISBN 13: 9780060934866
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270