Restoration - Softcover

Tremain, Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039334598X ISBN 13: 9780393345988

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times).

Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel’s journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.

About this title

About the Author:

Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.

Review:

“Nothing less than superb.”
- New York Times

“A regal work―here, brought to triumphant attainment, are those elusive ideals of the historical novelist.”
- Ruth Rendel, Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 039334598X
• ISBN 13: 9780393345988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432