The Short History Of A Prince - Softcover

Críticas

A moving, eloquent novel about the subtleties of family relationships. (Mail on Sunday)

Funny, thoughtful and exhilarating. (Harpers & Queen)

This compelling novel deserves great acclaim . . . Witty, transcendent, brilliant. (Red)

Vivid and moving, and often very funny. (Kate Atkinson)

Jane Hamilton is one of a handful of great American novelists - all women - to have emerged in the past decade . . . One of the most profound writers we now have. (The Times)

Reseña del editor

Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death.

It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future.