The Brothers Boswell
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In 1763 London, John Boswell, the resentful younger brother of Samuel Johnson's future biographer, is stalking Boswell and Johnson, who have recently become friends. John bribes the boatmen who ferry his quarry on the Thames for the smallest details of their conversations. As he remembers the past, John reveals a personal link with the great lexicographer, with whom he once shared a brief, close relationship.--From Publisher's Weekly.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Soho Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 329 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781569475591 (hardcover)
1569475598 (hardcover)
SUBJECTS
Johnson, Samuel, -- 1709-1784 -- Fiction.
Boswell, James, -- 1740-1795 -- Fiction.
Boswell, John, -- 1743-ca. 1798 -- Fiction.
Authors, English -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.