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Dec 22, 2014Chapel_Hill_KenMc rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Carey's considerable talents are turned to a dense, richly detailed story of a French aristocrat and the English servant who becomes his confidante and, eventually, friend. Set in Paris, London, and New England in 1830, the novel was inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville's trip to the US. It provides some unexpected twists in the definitions of success and failure.