FRANCINE du PLESSIX GRAY |
A special pleasure it is this evening to have Francine du Plessix Gray, long one of this country's most accomplished and esteemed writers, author of numerous works of non-fiction (Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, Them: A Memoir of Parents) and fiction (Lovers and Tyrants) here at Elliott Bay. She visits with a much-anticipated new novel, The Queen's Lover (Penguin Press). Set in the court of Marie Antoinette and featuring her lover, the Swedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen, this is a compelling tale as the French Revolution is about to unfold. "Now the redoubtable Francine du Plessix Gray has brought the count fully to life ... In The Queen's Lover, Gray offers a rich and exacting portrait of Fersen and his world. Reading it is like stepping through one of Versailles's famed looking glasses into the roistering turmoil of late 1700s France, and seeing it afresh, freed from the endless shellacking of time and myth ... Just as history has lessons for us, so does historical fiction. And few novelists could so effectively show us how to hold firm in roiling times (like our own) as Gray." – Library Journal.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
