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Merivel Rose Tremain

Merivel By Rose Tremain

Merivel by Rose Tremain


$13.69
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

From the author of The Gustav SonataThe wonderful new historical novel set in seventeenth-century England from Rose Tremain, author of Restoration (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Road Home (winner of the Orange Prize) and Trespass (a Richard & Judy pick).

Merivel Summary

Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain

From the author of The Gustav Sonata The wonderful new historical novel set in seventeenth-century England from Rose Tremain, author of Restoration (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Road Home (winner of the Orange Prize) and Trespass (a Richard & Judy pick). Merivel has been called `wonderfully entertaining' (Guardian Books of the Year) and `an unadulterated delight' (Independent) and has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles - all glitter in front and squalor behind - leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future. But will that future ever be his? Summoned home urgently to attend to the ailing King, Merivel finds his loyalty and skill tested to their limits. Over a million Rose Tremain books sold `A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I `There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times `Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times `Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie `Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian

Merivel Reviews

"Social, political and physical labyrinth" -- Frances Osborne * Evening Standard *
"Satisfying... agreeably sardonic" -- Quentin Letts * Daily Mail *
"One of the great imaginative creations in English literature" * Daily Telegraph *
"An unadulterated delight" * Independent *
"Rich and satisfying" -- Lindsay Duguid * Sunday Times *
"A tour de force of literary technique, a treasure house of diligent research and imaginative ingenuity" -- Jane Shilling * Telegraph *
"Wonderfully entertaining" -- Michael Holroyd * Guardian, Books of the Year *
"Her feeling for the spirit of the times is triumphant" -- Charlotte Moore * Spectator *
"A rich, glowing portrait" -- Daisy Hay * Observer *
"Her characters laugh, cry, plot and flounder so convincingly that they take up residence in your head and refuse to go away" -- Mary Crockett * Scotland on Sunday *
"This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters, leavened with flourishes of lyricism and an attractive tolerance towards human frailties" -- Angus Clarke * The Times *
"What ultimately makes the book such a joy is simply being in Merivel's company. His narration is by turns rueful, comic, despairing and joyful; but it's always bursting with life, always good-hearted - and always entirely loveable" -- James Walton * Daily Mail *
"A delight" -- Lucy Beresford * Literary Review *
"At times witty and enchanting, on other occasions full of doubt and self-loathing, Merivel remains a stunning achievement. He is Everyman and speaks to us all" -- Virginia Blackburn * Sunday Express *
"Exuberance is a very hard thing to sustain in a novel... However, Tremain brings it off brilliantly. As one might expect, this is a very funny novel, full of picaresque adventure, hapless accidents and ingeniously wrought slapstick. However, it is also a very moving and beautiful novel. There are passages here which I found myself reading over and over again simply in order to savour them. Merivel: A Man of His Time may have been a long time coming, but it's been well worth the wait" -- John Preston * Mail on Sunday *
"Merivel is excellent company. Writing with a mimic's ear for conversation, whimsical one moment, grave the next, Tremain has an underlying preoccupation here: the last third of live, love and loss, loneliness and vanity" -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *

About Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

Additional information

GOR004880452
9780099548430
0099548437
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2013-07-18
352
Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize 2013 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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