Merivel A Man Of His Time
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Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393079570 |
Court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0099582090 |
An ambitious young medical student abandons his studies to revel at the court of King Charles II.
Author | : Anne Redmon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743418263 |
This is the story of a young English lutenist named Peter Claire who, in 1629, arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393246701 |
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. The novel follows Gustav’s family, tracing the roots of his mother’s anti-Semitism and its impact on her son and his beloved friend. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and forward through the lives and careers of the two men, one who becomes a hotel owner, the other a concert pianist, The Gustav Sonata explores the passionate love of childhood friendship as it is lost, transformed, and regained over a lifetime. It is a powerful and deeply moving addition to the beloved oeuvre of one of our greatest contemporary novelists.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312423100 |
An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0671886096 |
Certain that she is really a male trapped in a female body, Mary Ward pursues this elusive identity, much to the consternation of her mother, her brother, and a neighbor's son.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393080609 |
"Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable." —Margot Livesey, Boston Globe In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he drowns himself in drink. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun dreams of exacting retribution for a lifetime of betrayals. Into this world comes Anthony Verey, a disillusioned antiques dealer from London. When he sets his sights on the house, a frightening series of consequences is set in motion. "Rose Tremain's writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. This powerful and unsettling work, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, reveals yet another dimension to Tremain's extraordinary imagination.
Author | : John Freeman |
Publisher | : Granta |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-08-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1905881622 |
From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot toddy that was Grandmother's remedy for bruised knees, broken hearts and everything besides, here are stories about the ways we face our ailments and the ways we seek to cure ourselves. Rose Tremain contributes an extract from Merivel, a follow-up to her award-winning Restoration; Alice Munro writes a haunting, beautiful memoir about a strange phase in her childhood; Gish Jen tells a story about two brothers who are fixing up a house . . . but can't quite fix up the ageing parents who will live in it. The issue includes new poetry by Ben Lerner, Angela Carter, James Lasdun and Kay Ryan as well as non-fiction pieces by Terrence Holt and a highly regarded writer who breaks her silence about living with MS.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2008-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316032824 |
In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys -- he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country -- but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in The Road Home, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781529112276 |
1865. In the city of Bath, a young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she finds herself torn between a dangerous affair with a female lover and the promise of a conventional marriage to an apparently respectable doctor, her desires begin to lead her towards a future she had never imagined. Meanwhile, in Borneo, an eccentric British 'rajah', Sir Ralph Savage, overflowing with philanthropy but compromised by his passions, sees his schemes relentlessly undermined by his own fragility, by man's innate greed and by the invasive power of the forest itself. Jane's quest for an altered life and Sir Ralph's endeavours become locked together as the story journeys across the globe -- from the confines of an English tearoom to the rainforests of a tropical island via the slums of Dublin and the transgressive fancy-dress boutiques of Paris.