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Five Weeks In The Country: A Novel
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From The Acclaimed, AwardWinning Author Of Reading Like A Writer And Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris, 1932 Comes An Utterly Original Novel Inspired By The Strange Friendship Between Charles Dickens And Hans Christian Andersen And Set During The Summer When DickensS Family Life Exploded.In The Summer Of 1857, When British Newspapers Warned Of An Approaching Comet About To Destroy The Earth, An UnusualLooking Stranger Arrived At Charles DickensS Home, GadS Hill, In The Countryside Outside London. Dickens Had Met Hans Christian Andersen At A Dinner Party, A Decade Before, And, In A Moment Of Desperation, Had Invited Him To Visit.The Visit Did Not Go Well. The Eccentric Danish Author Of Classic Fairy Tales, Who Barely Spoke English, Outstayed His Welcome And Alienated The Dickens Household, Which Included Nine Children. Even The Oblivious, Obsessively SelfConscious Andersen Sensed The Increasing Tension Between Dickens And His Unhappy Wife, Catherine, But Was Slow To UnderstandOr To BelieveThat Dickens Had Fallen In Love With A Young Actress Appearing In His New Play. For Andersen, Those Five Weeks Were A Series Of Social Mistakes And Embarrassments But Ultimately A Lesson In How LifeS Most Humbling Experiences Can Be Transformed Into Art.Five Weeks In The Country, A Work Of Imaginative Fiction Inspired By Actual Events, Is Francine Prose At Her Dazzling Best.
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