Merivel: A Man of His Time - Hardcover

Tremain, Rose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393079570 ISBN 13: 9780393079579

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2013

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Book by Tremain Rose

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Richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters, leavened with flourishes of lyricism and and attractive tolerance towards human frailties. --Angus Clarke"

Reseña del editor:

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift for turning sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King s friend or the King s slave? In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles all glitter in front and squalor behind leaves Merivel in despair, until a chance encounter with Madame de Flamanville, a seductive Swiss botanist, allows him to dream of an honorable future. Yet will that future ever be his? Back home at Bidnold Manor, his loyalty and medical skills are tested to their limits, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc in his heart and on his estate. With a cascade of lace at his neck and a laugh that can burst out of him in the midst of torment, Merivel is a uniquely brilliant creation soulful, funny, outrageous, and achingly sad. He is Everyman. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries."

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393079570
• ISBN 13: 9780393079579
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 373