Editions

  • Home
  • The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099436942

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción.

With the lavish imaginative richness of Márquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099436942

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez

    Observer

  • Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words

    Guardian

  • The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting

    Daily Telegraph

  • Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus

    The Times

  • Richness, texture, irony and razzle-dazzle are underpinned by a probing irony and a finely tuned historical sense... The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a star turn: what on earth will she do next?

    Financial Times

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

Anne Enright

Related articles

/content/dam/prh/articles/adults/2020/january/Article Card_Anne Enright.jpg

Features

Shelf Life: Anne Enright on the five books that made her

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering reflects on a lifetime of reading, from Alice in Wonderland to what she learned from Toni Morrison.
/content/dam/prh/articles/adults/2019/december/AnneEnright_WebsiteAsset_970x415.jpg

Events

Anne Enright in Conversation - The Irish Times Women’s Podcast Live, 22nd February 2020
/content/dam/prh/company-pages/article-images/Feb-Anne-Enright.png

Anne Enright to receive the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. See More.

Analytics

Analytics cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. See More.

Preferences & Features

Preference and Feature cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. See More.

Targeting / Advertising

Targeting cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same content from reappearing, ensuring ads are displayed and, in some cases, selecting content based on your interests. See More.