The Prince
A Novel
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4.0 • 7 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
A modern retelling of The Golden Bowl by Henry James for fans of Sally Rooney and Kate Atkinson.
From their grand mansion on the Upper East Side to their magical private island in Long Island Sound, everything points to the Woodford family as being perfect and idyllic. Why, then, is there such tension in the air?
Enter Federico, a penniless Italian prince who is about to marry Emily Woodford, the only child of the family’s widowed patriarch, Henry. When Emily's beautiful, enigmatic childhood friend, Christina, appears on the scene as a guest at their wedding, trouble begins, for she and the Prince once had a passionate affair. Henry, however, is also enchanted by Christina. Now both Emily and her father must face a new reality, and learn whom they can, or cannot, trust.
Customer Reviews
Not great
I didn't known this was a riff on The Golden Bow, never having read it. I thought the story handled a complex life/human condition situation with subtlety, but ultimately the only character I felt I could relate to was Frederico. Perhaps Emily's and Henry's (daughter and her father) were acting true to their socioeconomic situation, but if that's true, then wealthy people are complete bores. Polite, absolutely, but zip in personality. I felt the writing was on the simplistic side as well.