Childish Loves (46 page)

—Louis Bayard,
Washington Post Book World

“Thoughtful and enjoyable.… Markovits teases out the suspense with wit and sensitivity.… A quirky, psychologically perceptive love story.… Admirers of the Romantics will find plenty to enjoy; other readers will too.”

—
The Economist

“A masterful chronicle of a doomed 19th-century romance that begins in deception and ends in tragedy.… Markovits is a remarkably economic writer who neatly conveys his characters' inner whirlwinds.… A powerful climax underscores the misery and longing at the core of this impressive novel.”

—
Publishers Weekly
, starred review

“Markovits is extraordinarily perceptive and extraordinarily evocative.… Much of the pleasure of a Markovits novel lies in the acuteness of its observation, the subtlety of its expression, the ingenuity of its form. Once you start marking brilliant passages or noting curious structures, it can be hard to stop.”

—Susan Eilenberg,
London Review of Books

“Markovits is an intriguing, sophisticated and accomplished writer.… Not since Fitzgerald, to my mind, has there been a prose stylist who is so in love with things, the stuff and sensuality of privilege. Markovits renders, like Fitzgerald, the bright glitter that Fitzgerald, he also shows exactly the dullness, the grey-cuffed shame of not having money's careless sense of leisured ease.”

—Kirsty Gunn,
The Observer

“
Imposture
is the best-written novel of its kind since Penelope Fitzgerald's
The Blue Flower
, and I was thrilled by the way it moved and developed, page by page, shining a light into the dark corners of the Romantic period as well as into the life of one man and his dreams of selfhood. It may easily turn out to be the best novel published this year. It's a beautiful piece of work.”

—Andrew O'Hagan, author of
Our Fathers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Markovits, Benjamin.
Childish loves / Benjamin Markovits.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN 978-0-393-34627-5
1. Markovits, Benjamin—Fiction. 2. Byron, George Gordon Byron,
Baron, 1788—1824—Fiction. 3. Publishers and publishing—Fiction.

I. Title.
PS3613.A7543C47 2011
813’.6—dc22

2011018341

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