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The Brothers Boswell

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Description for The Brothers Boswell Paperback. A killer stalks history's most famous friends in this thrilling retelling of one day in the life of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 338.

30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare. Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in the presence of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell - history's most famous friends.

Boswell, as charismatic and meticulously coiffed as Johnson is bullish and badly dressed, is eager to advance himself in literary society. Today he is to accompany the great Dr Johnson on an excursion up the Thames - and he is determined that nothing will go wrong.

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Product Details

Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848874466
SKU
V9781848874466
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99-10

About Philip Baruth
Philip Baruth is a novelist and an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio. His last book, The X President, which traced the attempts of a 109-year-old Bill Clinton to rewrite his historical legacy, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. He is a graduate of Brown University with an MA and PhD from University of California ... Read more

Reviews for The Brothers Boswell
Fascinating... expect zestful writing and brilliant sketches of Georgian London
Sunday Times
One of the novel's several wonders is that the mad brother is just as compelling a character as his soon-to-be-immortal sibling. If you're interested in Boswell and Johnson, or in 18th-century England, or in brilliant storytelling, The Brothers Boswell is not to be missed
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