The younger Robert Louis Stevenson, dwelling in a boarding condominium in San Francisco whereas expecting his beloved’s divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a hovering novel approximately his landlady’s adventurous and globe-trotting husband―but he by no means received round to it. and extremely quickly thereafter he was once married, headed domestic to Scotland, and on his solution to changing into the main well-known novelist on this planet, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The unusual Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped.
But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson’s untold story to lifestyles, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with these of a tender Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, collecting fabric for his fiction, and craving for his liked around the bay. An event story, an elegy to at least one of the best writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into the town via the Bay in the course of its personal lively early life, The Adventures of John Carson in different Quarters of the World is interesting, poignant, and sensual.
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