Jem (and Sam) - Softcover

Mount, Ferdinand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786707453 ISBN 13: 9780786707454

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 2000

Synopsis

How does Jeremiah Mount, a dealer in pornography and a failed farmer's son, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? This novel of jealousy and envy evokes the London of the Restoration as it brings its dubious hero to life.

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Review:

"This is a novel that wears its learning lightly. The extensive research is woven seamlessly into the plot and illuminates the setting" (Philippa Gregory Independent)

"This is a marvellously vivid and enterataining evocation of Cromwellian and Restoration England. Mount paints from a rich palette, but the brushwork is stylishly economical... When is a historical novel not a historical novel? When it is written by Ferdinand Mount. He is in danger of giving the genre a good name'" (Ian McIntyre The Times)

"The story smoothly takes in the Dutch wars, the Plague and Fire... It includes hellish episodes in a groaning Bedlam, as well as sylvan scenes of sport and the superior delights of the metropolis... Mount gives JEM a fluent, allusive prose with a period flavour that avoids pastiche...vivid...powerful" (Sunday Times)

Synopsis:

The fictional memoirs of Jeremiah Mount, a clerk in Oliver Cromwell's government, describe how, along with co-worker and sometime rival Samuel Pepys, he pursues worldly success and erotic whims in tumultuous seventeenth-century London. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786707453
• ISBN 13: 9780786707454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432