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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Reader Score
59%
59% of readers
recommend this book
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron. Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lóoacute;pez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him. Reviled by Asunción society and the family of her lover, who never married her, Eliza nevertheless had her son baptized his heir. In less than a decade, López became dictator and plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious-as both the angel of the battlefield, inspiring the troops, and the demon driving López's ambition-and when López was killed in battle, she buried him in a shallow grave dug with her own hands. Anne Enright has written a gorgeous, deeply resonant novel.
Book Details
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: Mar 3rd, 2004
- Pages: 230
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.12in - 5.52in - 0.64in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780802141194
- Categories: • Historical - General• Literary
Praise for this book
"There's something of [Angela] Carter's sensual, self-fashioning adventuresses in Eliza."