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- catalog abstract ""Brooks Hansen's new novel is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatriates and the descendants of Portuguese settlers and their slaves - and by the spirit of the island's first colonist, the sixteenth-century nobleman Fernando Lopez, who haunts them all, and the novel, in strange and captivating ways." "Bonaparte's arrival - with a retinue of fifteen hundred people - throws the island population into turmoil and particularly alarms the slaves, who see "Bouy" as a white demon. After settling in a teahouse in a patch of briars and fruit trees, where he will write his memoirs and await his inevitable end, Napoleon is befriended by a teenage girl, Betsy Balcombe - the only person who is able to penetrate the imperial facade and get to know the proud, wounded man within."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Monsters of Saint Helena".
- catalog contributor b12711476.
- catalog coverage "Saint Helena Fiction.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Brooks Hansen's new novel is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatriates and the descendants of Portuguese settlers and their slaves - and by the spirit of the island's first colonist, the sixteenth-century nobleman Fernando Lopez, who haunts them all, and the novel, in strange and captivating ways." "Bonaparte's arrival - with a retinue of fifteen hundred people - throws the island population into turmoil and particularly alarms the slaves, who see "Bouy" as a white demon. After settling in a teahouse in a patch of briars and fruit trees, where he will write his memoirs and await his inevitable end, Napoleon is befriended by a teenage girl, Betsy Balcombe - the only person who is able to penetrate the imperial facade and get to know the proud, wounded man within."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xi, 306 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374270198 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Saint Helena Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Emperors Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Exiles Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Captivity, 1815-1821 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3558.A5126 M66 2003".
- catalog title "Monsters of Saint Helena".
- catalog title "The monsters of St. Helena / Brooks Hansen.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".