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In this novel, Christopher Columbus tells the story of his life and recalls the first fateful love of his youth, thoughts on his Portuguese wife, his Spanish mistress, and Queen Isabella, and his discovery of the New World
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Marlowe makes humorous capital of the perennial rumor that Columbus began life as the son of forcibly converted Jews, an ineffectual father and a powerful mom who preferred a Passover seder to an Easter Sunday dinner any day. These "memoirs"no small achievement for a confessed illiteraterelate his life in scarlet detail. In this lurid Renaissance milieu, the avid girls are everywhereeven when they seem to be boys. And always, just beyond the horizon of the round (or flat) earth, the New World lies waiting, like a paramour, to be embraced. A cast of thousandsrogues, rakes, whores, pirates, royalty, monksall enliven the imagined life our quasi-historical hero never lived. The gaudy saga goes on far too long, the strain of sustaining a riotous tone sets in and the comedy runs thin. But there are good momentsboisterous, energetic, steamingthat would have ignited the fires of the Inquisition. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0684187698
- ISBN 13 9780684187693
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages569
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