A Quiet Adjustment - Hardcover

Markovits, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393067009 ISBN 13: 9780393067002

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A psychological tale based on a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife reimagines Byron's troubled marriage to a tormented and intellectual Annabella and his scandalous incestuous affair with the impetuous Gus. 13,000 first printing.

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Reseña del editor

To dissolve a dreadfully mistaken union between two formidable egos: surely it should only take "a quiet adjustment"? Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age Benjamin Markovits reimagines Byron's marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron's incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and obligation lead them all and the reader headlong to a devastating conclusion.Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic for his memorable prose and acute sense of character, Markovits here sets a new standard for the literary historical novel. A Quiet Adjustment is at once immersed in its period, an homage to Byron and his work, and a thoroughly modern fiction in the psychologically incisive vein of Ian McEwan and Colm Toibin."

Biografía del autor

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas and London, where he now lives. He teaches at the University of London. He contributes to the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, and others.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393067009
• ISBN 13: 9780393067002
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 341
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