Rose Tremain: Restoration
Restoration
Buch
- From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily
- Vintage Publishing, 07/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099529637
- Bestellnummer: 5071405
- Umfang: 416 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 298 g
- Maße: 203 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 29 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.7.2009
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
The bestselling and much-loved classic from Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain, Restoration introduces us to the young Robert Merivel and his rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.Beschreibung
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORRobert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King's favour, Merivel begins a journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth-century society.