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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

by Anne Enright (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

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 Ascuncion. With the lavish imaginative richness of Marquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0099436949
ISBN 13: 9780099436942
Book Overview: 'A luscious read' Independent

Media Reviews
She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez * Observer *
Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words * Guardian *
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting * Daily Telegraph *
Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus * The Times *
Richness, texture, irony and razzle-dazzle are underpinned by a probing irony and a finely tuned historical sense... The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a star turn: what on earth will she do next? * Financial Times *
Author Bio
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and five novels, including The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.