William Boyd

Gebundenes Buch

The Romantic

Beschreibung

"Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, embedded with the East Indian Army in Sri Lanka, sunning himself alongside the Romantic poets in Pisa. He travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, even a father. And he experiences all the vicissitudes of existence, including a once-in-a-lifetime love that will haunt the rest of his days. In the end, his great accomplishment is to discover who he truly is-which is the romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic"--

Autor

WILLIAM BOYD was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the award-winning author of seventeen highly acclaimed novels and five collections of stories. He divides his time between London and France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780593536797
• ISBN-10: 0593536797
• Artikelnr.: 66754096

Rezensionen

The Romantic by William Boyd was the novel I enjoyed most this year. It's incredibly ambitious, its hero moving from Co Cork to London, then from Waterloo to Zanzibar, and at one point even joining the East Indian Army, but it was such an easy, indulgent read Sathnam Sanghera The Times, Best Books of the Year