A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9781681370576
ISBN-13 : 1681370573
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Book Synopsis A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error by : Sybille Bedford

Download or read book A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error written by Sybille Bedford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her daughter Constanza, the favorite of the title, inherits her mother’s beauty, intelligence, and wealth, along with her father’s Catholicism, which she soon rejects. When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the standards of behavior of their disparate cultures; Constanza, with her European upbringing, is free to plot her own course, and she does so with daring, making an unconventional life for herself in England and on the continent during and after the First World War. Her own daughter Flavia is the heroine of A Compass Error, which begins where the first novel concludes. Flavia too is a brilliant young woman, though both more brash and more faltering than her mother, studying for her entrance exam to Oxford when she becomes involved with a mysterious woman whose arrival at a sensitive moment in Flavia’s adolescence will alter both her and her mother’s lives forever.


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