Restoration (Contemporary Fiction)

Tremain, Rose

ISBN 10: 962634976X ISBN 13: 9789626349762

Verlag: Naxos AudioBooks, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The award-winning "Restoration" is one of Rose Tremain's most popular works, and showcases her remarkable talent for capturing historical settings and personalities. Set during the English Restoration in the decadent court of King Charles II, the novel weaves a story of corrupted innocence, betrayal, love and hope against a fascinating historical backdrop. Written in the first person, the fortunes of the fallible but charismatic courtier Robert Merivel are utterly compelling. "Restoration" lyrically evokes the rich tapestry of seventeenth-century London life.

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Críticas

There is a heartstopping passage in Restoration, at our hero and narrator Robert Merivel's wedding feast. He describes how, as his father-in-law plays an air of intense melancholy on his viola da gamba, he is overcome with an unhappiness so profound he has to run outside and weep. This epiphany is described to the strains of that very piece, John Dowland's Flow my Tears, one of the most powerful uses of music I have ever heard on an audio production. The period is the 1660s, and we follow the rise, fall and redemption of the troubled physician Merivel, made palpably likeable by Degas's performance. He becomes a favourite of Charles II, gains and loses wealth, works at the new BedlamA" in the Fens and returns to London for the plague and the great fire, finally buttressing his sadness with a sense that he can be usefulA". - Karen Robinson, Sunday Times

Biografía del autor

Rose Tremain has written numerous plays for radio and television as well as many novels. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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• Verlag: Naxos AudioBooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 962634976X
• ISBN 13: 9789626349762
• Einband: CD de audio
• Anzahl der Seiten: 6