He's failed before, but with her help, this time, he might just succeed. Henry Crawford has failed to secure the heart of a good woman before β and quite spectacularly so! There are few in town who have not heard of his scandalous affair. While his debacle might have proven great fodder for the go
Henry, Henry
β Scribed by Brian Willems
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing;Zero Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Henry, Henry is a brilliantly conceived experimental novel comprising two alternating stories: a factually inaccurate pseudo-biography of 17th-century composer Henry Purcell and the mid-20th-century story of the people writing the biography. In the 17th-century narrative, the young Henry is repeatedly imprisoned, has an affair with the choirmaster's wife, and is afflicted with an unusual fondness for nice clothes. Falsely accused of stealing all of the cornets from the royal stock of instruments, Henry is banished to a town infested with the plague. There he starts an affair with another woman, Cathleen. Upon his return to London, Henry is confronted with the complexities of his love life. The 20th-century narrative tells of faux-scholar Mr Austen who has taken up residence in a small coastal town to get on with his work. There he befriends the Purcell family: mother and young son Henry. At once wild, philosophical and thought-provoking, Henry, Henry is a novella that will stay...
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