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Itinerent sailor and promoter Christopher Columbus uses the lure of great wealth to convince Queen Isabel, the driven architect of the Spanish Inquisition, to support his scheme to find a new route to the Orient

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Newton Frohlich is the award-winning author of the historical novel The Shakespeare Mask as well as 1492: A Novel of Christopher Columbus, the Spanish Inquisition & a World at the Turning Point and Making the Best of It: A Common-Sense Guide to Negotiating a Divorce. A former lawyer, he devoted eight years to the research and writing of 1492. He has lived in Washington, D.C., the south of France, and Israel and now makes his home on Cape Cod with his wife.
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"Captivating, extraordinarily vivid first novel.... Frohlich, an attorney, spent eight years researching his book and brings remarkable realism to his chilling depiction of the fanaticism fueling the Inquisition.... This is a convincing, detailed re-creation of the Old World on the brink of discovery."
--Publishers Weekly

"A rollicking, readable, and fascinating story.... For a grand, sweeping tale of the history of Spain at the end of the 15th century, 1492 is hard to beat."
--St. Louis Post Dispatch

"Frohlich...shows a fine gift for storytelling.... Columbus himself emerges as a man of great talent with an almost mystical self-confidence.... The sheer power of the historical events is likely to keep the reader engaged."
--Booklist

"1492 is a novel. And a very fine one.... Newton Frohlich labored for eight years in the creation of this well-spun tale.... Impressive scholarship supports Frohlich's fiction.... I read this excellent novel until the wee hours several nights successively until the final page. The presence of terror is keenly conveyed. The sense of injustice is breathtaking. The characters of queen and inquisitor and explorer take form and walk the pathways of your mind."
--National Catholic Reporter

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  • PublisherSt Martins Pr
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 0312050410
  • ISBN 13 9780312050412
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages404
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