Stephanie Cowell, Author . Viking $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-670-03268-6
Former opera singer Cowell, whose previous novel (1997's The Players
) explored the apprenticeship years of a callow Shakespeare, turns her eye to the women in the life of a young Mozart in her fourth graceful and entertaining historical. Music...
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Stephanie Cowell, Author . Crown $25 (338p) ISBN 978-0-307-46321-0
Behind every great artist stands a woman driving him to inspiration, aspiration, and desperation, according to Cowell (Marrying Mozart
), who bases her latest novel about an artist and his muse on the life of Claude Monet. Beautiful bourgeoise...
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Stephanie Cowell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24 (442p) ISBN 978-0-393-03543-8
First-novelist Cowell vividly captures the earthily lyrical language and harsh social reality of Elizabethan England in an outstanding historical drama. At age five, Nick sees his father hanged as a thief; his mother is reduced to taking in laundry,
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Stephanie Cowell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03873-6
The absorbing sequel to Cowell's first novel, Nicholas Cooke, is imbued with the same measured gravity, poetic and bawdy language and grasp of the political, social, religious and cultural history of Elizabethan/Stuart England that distinguished its
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Stephanie Cowell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24 (252p) ISBN 978-0-393-04060-9
Having established herself as an historical novelist of the first rank with Nicholas Cooke and The Physician of London, Cowell returns to Elizabethan England with a beautifully nuanced portrait of the young William Shakespeare. Beginning her...
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Stephanie Cowell. Regal House, $19.95 trade paper (266p) ISBN 978-1-64603-624-0
The cogent latest from Cowell (The Boy in the Rain) offers a window into the lives of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, and speculates on what might have inspired Emily to write Wuthering Heights. In 1831, when Emily is 12, her wanderings away from
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