Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
by John Crowley
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Author: John CrowleyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-14
ISBN: 0060556587
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: William Morrow
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Book Review: Isn't it Byronic?
Summary: 5 Stars
The spectacular success of Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons," in which codes figure prominently as plot devises, has paved the way for such delights as "The Evening Land," a new wave that ratchets the concept from the field of popular fiction to the next level, one that may well introduce new generations to the classic romanticism of Byron, Shelley, et. al. Crowley imagines that a novel written by Byron was encoded by his daughter Ada in order to preserve it from destruction by her mother, who was fanatical about privacy issues. These papers, having lain unread in an old trunk since 1852, are newly discovered and have now caught the interest of feminist scholars posting information about Ada on their website. Crowley employs the conceit of a novel within a novel wherein chapters of Byron's novel alternate with the emails of the women who have become fixated on breaking the novel's code, and thereby cleverly interweaving their parallel lives. Byron's purported novel could stand alone as an entertaining work of fiction. As Crowley tells it, Ali is the first Byronic hero, his life a remarkable illustration of Byron's adventures as an exile. Moldering castles, beastly aristocrats, obsessive love, and horrors aplenty await an Albanian shepherd boy forced to claim an English birthright. Likewise, the picture of Thea's and Alex's relationship and the scandalous back story of Alex's father that emerge through e-mail is plainly brilliant. Crowley deftly inhabits the individual voices of his wildly disparate characters and will entrance you to the end.
Summary of Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and almost not recognized. Lord Byron's Novel is the story of a dying daughter's attempt to understand the famous father she longed for -- and the young woman who, by learning the secret of Byron's manuscript and Ada's devotion, reconnects with her own father, driven from her life by a crime as terrible as any of which Byron himself was accused.
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