Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Summer Will Show (New York Review Books Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781590173169
- author:
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- NYRB Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 127mm X 202mm
- Genre:
- Historical
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper fashion. However, tragedy strikes, and the children die, leaving Sophia in despair. Desperate for a change, Sophia finds herself in Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. There, she forms an unlikely close relationship with Minna, her husband's sometime mistress. Minna's dramatic recitations, based on her childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street. As Sophia becomes embroiled in Minna's life, she is drawn into a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris. This novel is a brilliant reimagining of the possibilities of historical fiction, blending elements of adventure, love, and ideas.
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