Summer Will Show
*Summer Will Show* by Sylvia Townsend Warner, published by New York Review of Books on June 16, 2009, is a literary work that explores the life of Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic background. After sending her unfaithful husband to Paris, she resolves to raise her children in a traditional Tory manner. However, tragedy strikes when her children die, prompting Sophia to journey to Paris during the tumultuous revolution of 1848, where she encounters a world of upheaval and transformation.
In this edition, readers will find a narrative that intertwines themes of love, adventure, and the complexities of personal and political change. Sophia’s unexpected bond with Minna, her husband’s former mistress, leads her into the vibrant and chaotic life of revolutionary Paris. As Minna captivates audiences with her dramatic stories, Sophia is drawn into a whirlwind of bohemian life and revolutionary fervor, culminating in a powerful conclusion set against the backdrop of conflict and hope. This 352-page novel delves into historical fiction while addressing LGBTQ+ themes, offering a unique perspective on the era.
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Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion.
Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husband’s sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-raising childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street alike. Minna, “magnanimous and unscrupulous, fickle, ardent, and interfering,” leads Sophia on a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris, in a story that reaches an unforgettable conclusion amidst the bullets, bloodshed, and hope of the barricades.
Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most original and inventive of twentieth-century English novelists. At once an adventure story, a love story, and a novel of ideas, Summer Will Show is a brilliant reimagining of the possibilities of historical fiction.
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