Bainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the domain of a wealthy Southwark brewer and his wife, Hester Thrale. The melancholic, middle-aged lexicographer plunges into an increasingly ambiguous relationship with the vivacious Mrs. Thrale for the next twenty years. In that time Hester's eldest daughter, the neglected but prodigiously clever Queeney, will grow into young womanhood. Along the way, little of the emotional tangle and sexual tension stirring beneath the decorous surfaces of the Thrale household will escape Queeney's cold, observant eye. "A dark, often hilarious and deeply human vision ...a major literary accomplishment. "Margaret Atwood, Toronto Globe and Mail "...at the end...
Visa mer
Recensioner
2013-01-29
Betyg 
Jag gillade Master Georgie så mycket och kastade mig över denna boken också, men tyvärr höll den inte, karaktärerna och historien tog aldrig tag i mig på samma sätt. En svag trea är det bara.
