Ebook {Epub PDF} Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award. The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan, thirty years before the American Revolution, in "a first-class period entertainment" (The Guardian). New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill is a story “taut with twists and turns” that “keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion” (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love—and find 4/5(K). Published in , Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York is a swashbuckling debut novel by British author, Francis Spufford. It is recipient of the Costa First Novel Award, the Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize/5.

"Francis Spufford has long been one of my favourite writers of non-fiction; he is now becoming a favourite writer of fiction as well. Golden Hill is a meticulously crafted and brilliantly written novel that is both an affectionate homage to the 18th century novel and a taut and thoughtful tale." —Iain Pears. golden hill by Francis Spufford ‧ RELEASE DATE: J This sparkling first novel sends a young man through a gantlet of troubles and amusements in 18th-century Manhattan. Francis Spufford talks about his book, Golden Hill, which has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford review – a frolicsome first novel A picaresque tale of an ingenu’s travails in midth century Manhattan pays loving tribute to the literature of that era From. Golden Hill is a novel by the English writer Francis Spufford. It won the Costa Book Award for a first novel, and the Ondaatje Prize. As explained in its acknowledgements, it is heavily influenced by The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding and Joseph Andrews by her brother Henry Fielding. Golden Hill is an update of eighteenth-century picaresque novels by the likes of Henry Fielding and entertains us with its savage wit, mystery, charismatic protagonist, and romantic storyline as it propels us toward a powerful revelation at the novel’s end.