The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world : a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world : a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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viii, 229 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay. An adventure tale, an elegy to one of the greatest writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into The City by the Bay during its own energetic youth, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World is entertaining, poignant, and sensual"--
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Publication Info:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017.
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Authors -- Fiction. |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction. |
Biographical fiction. |
Adventure fiction. |
Historical fiction. |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Fiction. |
Stevenson, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894 |
Shih-ti-wen-sheng, 1850-1894 |
Stivenson, Robert Lui, 1850-1894 |
Sŭtʻibŭnsŭn, R. L., 1850-1894 |
Sitivensin, Robert Loui, 1850-1894 |
Stivenson, Robert Lʹi͡uis, 1850-1894 |
Stivensoni, Robert Luis, 1850-1894 |
Sṭivanasana, Āra. Ela., 1850-1894 |
Sṭivansana, Āra. Ela., 1850-1894 |
Stivenson, R. L. (Robert Lʹi͡uis), 1850-1894 |
Стивенсон, Роберт Луис, 1850-1894 |
Стивенсон. Р. Л., 1850-1894 |
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס |
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס, 1850-1894 |
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואס |
סטיבנסון, ר״ל, 1850-1894 |
סטיבנסון, ר. ל. |
סטיווענסאן, ראבערט ל. |
סטיװענסאן, ראבערט לואיס, 1850-1894 |
史蒂文森罗伯特·路易斯, 1850-1894 |
R.L. スティーブンソン, 1850-1894 |
R.L.スティーヴンソン, 1850-1894 |
R. L. S. (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894 |
RLS (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894 |
S., R. L. (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894 |
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, 1850-1894 |
Stivenson, Robert Lui |
Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894 |
Writers |
San Francisco County (Calif.) |
San Francisco |
San Francisco City & County (Calif.) |
San Francisco City and County (Calif.) |
City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) |
City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) |
Saint Francisco (Calif.) |
SAILS ISBN:
9781250100528