The Short History of a Prince

The Short History of a Prince

by JaneHamilton (Author)

Synopsis

Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Apr 1999

ISBN 10: 055299801X
ISBN 13: 9780552998017
Book Overview: A moving novel about a young man looking back at a formative time in his adolescence. By the acclaimed author of A MAP OF THE WORLD and THE BOOK OF RUTH.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 1999.

Media Reviews
A moving, eloquent novel about the subtleties of family relationships. Mail on Sunday Funny, thoughtful and exhilarating. Harpers & Queen This compelling novel deserves great acclaim ... Witty, transcendent, brilliant. Red Vivid and moving, and often very funny. -- Kate Atkinson Jane Hamilton is one of a handful of great American novelists - all women - to have emerged in the past decade ... One of the most profound writers we now have. The Times
Author Bio
Jane Hamilton's first novel, the prizewinning The Book of Ruth, was selected for Oprah Winfrey's influential Book Club, as was her second novel, A Map of the World. Her most recent work, The Short History of a Prince, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her new novel is Disobedience. She lives on an apple farm in Wisconsin.