The Last Enchantments Contributor(s): Finch, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250063256 ISBN-13: 9781250063250 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Friendship |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life forever After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's soon caught up in a whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements that threaten his safe plans. As he explores the heady social world of Oxford, he becomes fast friends with Tom, his snobbish but affable flat mate; Anil, an Indian economist with a deep love for gangster rap; Anneliese, a German historian obsessed with photography; and Timmo, whose chief ambition is to become a reality television star. What he's least prepared for is Sophie, a witty, beautiful and enigmatic woman who makes him question everything he knows about himself. Charles Finch's The Last Enchantments is a sweeping novel about love and loss that redefines what it means to grow up as an American in the twenty-first century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Finch, Charles: - Charles Finch is the author of the Charles Lenox mysteries, including The Inheritance and A Beautiful Blue Death, which was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2007. He is a graduate of Yale and Oxford, and lives in Chicago. His first contemporary novel, The Last Enchantments, is also available from St. Martin's Press. He lives in Chicago. |