Anne Enright

Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

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ISBN: 9780099436942
Author : Anne Enright
Published: 2025
Publisher: Vintage
Number of pages: 240
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 197×129

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‘Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus’ The TimesBeautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. We first encounter her in Paris, 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 a regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción.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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