Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s,\nthe richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza\nin bed with Francisco Solano Lopez- heir to the untold wealth of\nParaguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and\nwill send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her\nglorious future in Ascuncion. With the lavish imaginative richness\nof Marquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog, THE PLEASURE\nOF ELIZA LYNCH is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex,\nbeauty and corruption and the end of the old world.

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