Imposture - Brossura

Markovits, Benjamin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571233325 ISBN 13: 9780571233328

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2007

Riassunto

Having been dismissed from Lord Byron's service, Dr John Polidori had fallen on hard times. Three years earlier he had accompanied the poet on a tour of the continent, Poladori had held literary ambitions and wanted to test his talents against the greatest writer of his age. That summer had become famous in literary history, Byron and Shelley met and grew into friends, Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein". And now a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori knows that he can only emerge from Byron's shadow if he confesses his true identity to the deluded girl; but was it only Byron's shadow that led her to love him in the first place? And a ghost story, "The Vampyre", is published under Byron's name, but will the truth of the matter be uncovered?

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Descrizione del libro:

A brilliant, gothic novel travelling in the shady footsteps of Byron's physician and double

L'autore:

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He left an unpromising career as a professional basketball player to study the Romantics. Since then he has taught high school English, edited a left-wing cultural magazine and written essays, stories and reviews for, among other publications, The New York Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and the Paris Review. He has written four previous novels, The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment. Markovits has lived in London since 2000 and is married with a daughter and a son. He teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571233325
• ISBN 13: 9780571233328
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200