Rose Tremain

Broschiertes Buch

Restoration

Beschreibung

Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role.

Autor

Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France's Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 618072
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780099529637
• ISBN-10: 0099529637
• Artikelnr.: 25693720

Rezensionen

For a vivid - and funny - fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain's Restoration is hard to beat. The Times