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Ross Hall - by Andrew Key (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • In January 1766, fleeing persecution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau arrived in England with his long-suffering companion Thérèse Levasseur.
  • Author(s): Andrew Key
  • 192 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



A reimagining of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 18-month domicile in England, during which he came to believe his former friends and benefactors were part of an international conspiracy to discredit him.



Book Synopsis



In January 1766, fleeing persecution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau arrived in England with his long-suffering companion Thérèse Levasseur. While resident for some eighteen months in the Staffordshire village of Wootton, Rousseau began and may have completed Part One of The Confessions. It was an unhappy time for all concerned. Rousseau was in great physical discomfort and psychological torment. Deeply paranoid, he believed that friends old and new - led by his benefactor, the philosopher David Hume, who had accompanied him on his journey from France to England - were part of an international conspiracy to discredit him. This strange and difficult sojourn is brilliantly reimagined by Andrew Key in the pages of Ross Hall.



Review Quotes




"Andrew Key's exquisitely perceptive novel is both a psychological study and a fable. At its centre is a mind at work on thoughts whose cycling it can't - or won't - arrest. It's the mind of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, churning worry, courage, and yearning through mostly gloomy or even inhospitable weather, though sun and joy break through from time to time. Late in his life and longing for peace and freedom, Rousseau is offered refuge in rural England, and there he finds himself the troubled captive of his own thinking. Hoping to inspire people to offer 'the full honest revelation of their complete natural self', he seeks to do so himself. In the process, he reveals himself to be grand, pathetic, brilliant, clueless, and heroic. And Key is discovered to be one of the great young writers of the twenty-first century, a compassionate as well as adventurous thinker."

- LYN HEJINIAN, author of My Life and Positions of the Sun


Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .44 Inches (D)
Weight: .47 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Grand Iota
Format: Paperback
Author: Andrew Key
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2022
TCIN: 1005683889
UPC: 9781874400844
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-6078
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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