Winner of Sorrow

A fictional imagining of the gentle but troubled zealot William Cowper--best known as a precursor to Romantics such as Wordsworth and Burns--Brian Lynch's The Winner of Sorrow brings to life the mind and times of an eighteenth-century poet. Intense and exhilarating, this is literary fiction at its finest--the reader will be hard-pressed not to rush ahead to see what happens next. Yet you'll want to savor every word as Lynch traces Cowper's tragic descent into madness, which is presented matter-of-factly so that the novel is not sentimental but austere, not precious but serious, and yet, remarkably, lively, sensuous, and blackly comic.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 02/01/2009
ISBN: 9781564785213
Pages: 363
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.46w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/24/2008 pg. 37
Library Journal 12/15/2008 pg. 114