Quiet Adjustment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393330229)

In his Byron trilogy, Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its perfect prose, penetrating insight, and simmering passions. Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age Markovits re-imagines Byron s marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron s incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and one s obligations to society lead them all and the reader headlong to a devastating conclusion."

Author: Benjamin Markovits
ISBN-10: 0393330222
ISBN-13: 9780393330229
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2009 pg. 28