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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Anne Enright
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Description for The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
‘Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus’ The Times
Beautiful 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099436942
SKU
V9780099436942
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
Reviews for The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
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
She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez
Observer
Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words
Guardian
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
Rich, flamboyant...dazzling with images
London Review of Books
Daily Telegraph
Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus
The Times
She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez
Observer
Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words
Guardian
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
Rich, flamboyant...dazzling with images
London Review of Books