In this luminous novel about romance and illusion--and what's left of love when they're stripped away--an American Anglophile is drawn into the lives of a disintegrating aristocratic family.
Evelyn Toynton's most recent book was Jackson Pollock, published by Yale University Press in 2012. Her novel Modern Art was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was translated into Russian; Other Press published her second novel, The Oriental Wife, which has been optioned for a film and published in a Greek translation. Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, the American Scholar, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Salmagundi, and Prospect, among others, and have been reprinted in several anthologies, including Rereadings, Mentors, Muses & Monsters and Table Talk from the Threepenny Review.
"A well-told and gripping drama." -Times Literary
Supplement
"Evocative...vivid...a knotty story ripe for discussion."
-Booklist (starred review)
"A wordsmith of the highest order, Toynton...weaves a deeply
cinematic story." -Library Journal (starred review)
"A finely phrased and observed piece of writing." -Kirkus
Reviews
"An intense and beautifully written novel, a vivid portrayal of
romantic Anglophilia and disillusionment, explored in all its
sorrowful and comic complexity." -Joan Brady, Whitbread
Award-winning author of Theory of War
"A scrupulously observed story of an American Anglophile confronted
by the quirks, cruelties, and delusions of the English upper
classes-I was fascinated." -Lynn Freed, author of The Last
Laugh
"Evelyn Toynton's riveting new novel, about an American in England
and the aristocratic family who fascinate her, artfully explores
the damage done by ideals and illusions, while exposing the
underlying reality no one wants to acknowledge." -Carole Angier,
biographer of Jean Rhys and Primo Levi
"Evelyn Toynton's latest novel is a pitch-perfect exploration of an
aristocratic English family whose inheritance is both glorious and
grim. With her superb eye for cultural and psychological details,
Toynton pulls us easily into a world that is at once familiar and
uncommon, dark, witty, and achingly human." -Elizabeth Benedict,
author of Almost
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