The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Anne Enright

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 December 2003
Pages
240
ISBN
9780099436942

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Anne Enright

Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s,\nthe richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza\nin bed with Francisco Solano Lopez- heir to the untold wealth of\nParaguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and\nwill send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her\nglorious future in Ascuncion. With the lavish imaginative richness\nof Marquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog, THE PLEASURE\nOF ELIZA LYNCH is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex,\nbeauty and corruption and the end of the old world.

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