If something seems lacking, that may only be in comparison with the first novel's unflagging inventiveness and its film adaptation's unrestrained opulence, and from Tremain's focus on the Restoration's sadder, waning days, with both Merivel and Charles realizing how short of their former promise their lives have fallen. Wonderfully rich scenes light up the meandering narrative: the King's mistress in retreat the bear on the loose Merivel walking the royal dogs. As before, Tremain contrasts beauty and coarseness, melancholy and slapstick, tenderness and pageantry. Though she recovers and the prospect of a new romance, with a gay Swiss Guard's beautiful, neglected wife, Louise de Flamanville, arises in the meantime Merivel remains weary, disappointed, and haunted by memories, his malaise mirroring that of King Charles II, whose reign is ending with England beset by poverty and unrest.

Merivel sends the bear back to England before returning himself to attend to his ailing daughter, Margaret. Rose Tremain Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain review Does Rose Tremains sequel to Restoration live up to its predecessor Robert Downey Jr (right) as Merivel, with Hugh Grant, in. Merivel travels to Versailles looking for joie de vivre, encountering instead a cliquish court, shabby accommodations, and an ill-treated pet bear.

Cuenta y listas Devoluciones y Pedidos Cesta Todo. Hola Elige tu dirección Todos los departamentos ES. Set in 1683, 15 years after the end of Tremain's Restoration, this sequel finds sometime doctor, sometime court jester Robert Merivel restless despite his comfortable county estate in England. Merivel: A Man of His Time : Tremain, Rose, Barrett, Seán: Amazon.es: Libros.

Merivel a man of his time