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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Markovits's latest (after 2005's Fathers and Daughters) is a masterful chronicle of a doomed 19th-century romance that begins in deception and ends in tragedy. Bookish Eliza Esmond, having forever lived in the shadow of her prettier sister, has a chance encounter with famed writer and legendary lover Lord Byron outside a London bookstore and is thrilled when their brief conversation turns, over time, into his pursuit of her. Unfortunately for Eliza, her Byron isn't the real Byron; he's John "Polly" Polidori, a bumbling doctor with literary aspirations who had worked as Lord Byron's personal physician. Even after Byron severed their relationship, Polly remained obsessed with the poet and went to absurd lengths—offering up his sister, for one—to keep Byron in his life. Polly maintains the charade, and his anonymously published and wildly popular story is believed by everyone—including Eliza—to be Byron's work. Markovitz is a remarkably economic writer who neatly conveys his characters' inner whirlwinds: "It was, for Polidori, a little like discovering, after an orphaned childhood, that your father had been a king, that you were a king, now, too." A powerful climax underscores the misery and longing at the core of this impressive novel. (May)
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Markovits' fourth offering (after Fathers and Daughters 2005) is a tantalizing take on the agony of deceit. As the novel opens, readers meet John Polidori, Lord Byron's one-time physician, who has fallen on hard times. Lord Byron, it seems, has received credit for a vampire tale penned by Polidori himself. (The actual yarn went on to be celebrated as a landmark of fanged literature.) When Polidori meets Eliza Esmond, the bookish young woman mistakes him for handsome Lothario Lord B. (The two do resemble one another.) Polidori, clever and not a little desperate, can't resist the temptation to revel in the perks of the poet's notorious reputation. What follows is a nimble novel that intertwines Polidori's past experiences with Byron and his curious courtship of Eliza, who is all too eager to be wooed. Though the prose is a bit too flowery at times, Markovits' meditation on the price of pretending brims with delightfully dry wit. A high-society woman has a "bright little smile just loose enough one might slip a letter knife between her lips." Allison Block
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --Ce texte fait référence à l’édition Broché .
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