Romantic, The [electronic resource]
William Boyd2022
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Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.
Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and
devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to
London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in
war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as
part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa.
In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days.
As he travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, a father, a
lover, he experiences all the vicissitudes of life and, through the accelerating
turbulence of the nineteenth century, he discovers who he truly is. This is the
romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic.
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet
panoramic novel set across the ni...
Main title:
Romantic, The [electronic resource] / William Boyd
Author:
William Boyd, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House UK, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (476 MB, 17:21:38 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Kobna Holbrook-Smith
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780241994856
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
529854
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