| Title : | The pleasure of Eliza Lynch | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Anne Enright, Author | | Publisher: | London [United Kingdom] : Vintage | | Publication Date: | 2003 | | Pagination: | 229 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-09-943694-2 | | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción. With the lavish imaginative richness of Márquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. | | Contents note: | A novel by Irish author Anne Enright, first published in 2002. |
The pleasure of Eliza Lynch [printed text] / Anne Enright, Author . - London (Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Sw1V2SA, United Kingdom) : Vintage, 2003 . - 229 p. ISBN : 978-0-09-943694-2 | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción. With the lavish imaginative richness of Márquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. | | Contents note: | A novel by Irish author Anne Enright, first published in 2002. |
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