The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World

The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Publisher's Synopsis

The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world. Now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay.

Book information

ISBN: 9781250100528
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Imprint: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
Edition: First Edition
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 229
Weight: 336g
Height: 149mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 28mm