A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics)

A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics)

A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her daughter Constanza, the favorite of the title, inherits her motherâ€™s beauty, intelligence, and wealth, along with her fatherâ€™s Catholicism, which she soon rejects.

When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the standards of behavior of their disparate cultures;Â Constanza, with her European upbringing, is free to plot her own course, and she does so with daring, making an unconventional life for herself in England and on the continent during and after the First World War.

Her own daughter Flavia is the heroine of A Compass Error, which begins where the first novel concludes. Flavia too is a brilliant young woman, though both more brash and more faltering than her mother, studying for her entrance exam to Oxford when she becomes involved with a mysterious woman whose arrival at a sensitive moment in Flaviaâ€™s adolescence will alter both her and her motherâ€™s lives forever.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1681370565-localization
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2017-07-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370569

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1681370565-localization
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2017-07-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681370569

A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (NYRB Classics)

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