The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel
 

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel

by Anne Enright

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron. Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano López in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him.... (read more)

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I had read "The Gathering" and did not like Enright's writing style, which was hard to follow. However, the writing style fit the story and the idea of questioning the accuracy of our memories. Since this book is historical fiction, I thought I would give Enright another try and that she would use a different writing style. She did not. It was hard to follow the story line. I gave up after the first fifty pages.

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