Under the Wide and Starry Sky
(Sprache: Englisch)
From Nancy Horan, the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank , comes the passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
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From Nancy Horan, the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank , comes the passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and nanny in tow. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her brood repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. There she meets Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who is instantly smitten with the earthy, independent, and opinionated belle Americaine .
A woman ahead of her time, Fanny does not immediately take to the young lawyer who longs to devote his life to literature rather than the law - and who would eventually write such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair-marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness that spans decades as they travel the world for the sake of his health following their art and dreams eventually settling in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried, with these words on his grave:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
( Requiem , Robert Louis Stevenson)
Autoren-Porträt von Nancy Horan
Nancy Horan is the author of Loving Frank. She lives and writes on an island near Seattle. Her first novel, Loving Frank, the story of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, was a New York Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nancy Horan
- 2014, 496 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN-10: 1444778420
- ISBN-13: 9781444778427
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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