| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
449 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
In 1850, Florence, daughter of a prominent English family, sets sail on the Nile chaperoned by longtime family friends and her maid, Trout. To her family's chagrin--and in spite of her wealth, charm, and beauty--she is, at twenty-nine and of her own volition, well on her way to spinsterhood. Meanwhile, Gustave and his good friend Maxime Du Camp embark on an expedition to document the then largely unexplored monuments of ancient Egypt. Traumatized by the deaths of his father and sister, and plagued by mysterious seizures, Flaubert has dropped out of law school and written his first novel, an effort promptly deemed unpublishable by his closest friends. At twenty-eight, he is an unproven writer with a failing body. Florence is a woman with radical ideas about society and God, naive in the ways of men. Gustave is a notorious womanizer and patron of innumerable prostitutes. But both burn with unfulfilled ambition. |
| Subject |
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Fiction.
|
|
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Fiction.
|
|
Friendship -- Fiction.
|
|
Nile River -- Fiction.
|
|
Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882 -- Fiction.
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
|
| ISBN |
9781451642964 hardback |
|
1451642962 hardback |
|
