The Prince's Boy: A Novel

Synopsis

The masterful new novel from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament. In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother, Elena, seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Bohème by his distant cousin, Eduard. But tentatively, secretly, Dinu is drawn to the Bains du Ballon d'Alsace, a notorious establishment rumored to offer the men of Paris--married or otherwise--who enjoy something different, everything they crave. It is here that he meets Razvan, a fellow Romanian, the adopted child of a man of refinement--a prince's boy--whose stories of Proust and other artists entrance Dinu, and who will become the young man's teacher in the ways of the world. At a distance of forty years and written in London, his refuge from the horrors of Europe's early-twentieth-century history, Dinu's memoir of his brief spell in Paris is one of exploration and rediscovery. The love that blossomed that sunlit day in such inauspicious and unromantic surroundings would transcend lust, separation, despair, and even death to endure a lifetime. This is a work of extraordinary sensual delicacy, an exquisite novel from one of our most celebrated writers. PAUL BAILEY is an award-winning writer whose novels include At the Jerusalem which won the Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both short-listed for the Man Booker Prize; Sugar Cane, a sequel to Gabriel's Lament: Kitty and Virgil; Uncle Rudolf; and, most recently, Chapman's Odyssey. He is the recipient of the E. Monsieur Forster Award and the George Orwell Memorial Award, and has also written and presented features for radio. Paul Bailey lives in London.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

152 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781620407196

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Date of Addition:

11/05/21

Copyrighted By:

Paul Bailey

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Terry Gorman

Proofread By:

Terry Gorman

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.