Author : John Banville
Release : 2018-10-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 890/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mrs. Osmond by : John Banville
Download or read book Mrs. Osmond written by John Banville. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.