The Beggar's Pawn
A Novel
$20.33
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2020
Summary
The final book by the noted novelist, short story writer, and teacher John L’Heureux: the story of an affable stranger whose appeals for money gradually upend the lives of an academic’s family.
After a decades-long career as a critically acclaimed writer, John L’Heureux had a late flowering in his career. In the year before his death, The New Yorker published three of his stories, and a collection of his short stories was published by A Public Space. His final novel, The Beggar’s Pawn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135234 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143135236 |
| Author: | John L'Heureux |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“The erudite narration balances ideas and colorful characters. L’Heureux’s feat cements his enduring voice and talent.” – Publishers Weekly
“L’Heureux carefully shapes his characters… . a fine, career-capping novel.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“L’Heureux uses a deft, omniscient narration… . The result is a roller coaster of a novel that … treads a careful line between comedy and caricature while engaging in a poignant commentary on the interplay between charity and justice… . A fine addition to the L’Heureux canon.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“The erudite narration balances ideas and colorful characters. L’Heureux’s feat cements his enduring voice and talent.”
—Publishers Weekly
John L'Heureux
John L’Heureux was a novelist, short story writer, and poet, and taught at Stanford for several decades, heading the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship for many of them. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker and other publications, and his novels include A Woman Run Mad, The Shrine at Altamira, and The Medici Boy. He served in the Jesuit priesthood before publishing his first novel, Tight White Collar, in 1972. He died in 2019.
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