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When Liberia grows too boring.(Book Review)
The Shadows of Eliza Lynch: How a Nineteenth-Century Irish Courtesan Became the Most Powerful Woman in Paraguay, by Sian Rees; Hodder Headline, 2003, $32.95.
WELCOME TO PARAGUAY, where (to adapt Esquire's epigram about subcontinental Asia) anything can happen and something involving a five-figure death toll usually does. Give it your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to ... well, not breathe free exactly, but breathe an atmosphere more picturesque in its oppressiveness than almost any other climate. For sheer skill in attracting the marginalised, the apocalyptic, and the flamboyantly insane, Paraguay has no superiors and--outside Australian arts ...
- The Eliza Lynch Story: Three very different books recall the Paraguayan...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Moser, Benjamin May 5, 2003 700+ words
...scheming mistress, Eliza Lynch. By happy coincidence...Lynch arrived in Paraguay in 1855, the latest...American tyrant, Paraguay's founder Jose...The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch" (244 pages...his penis inside Eliza Lynch on a lovely spring...the new lovers to ...
- 'Without a blink of her lovely eye': the Pleasure of Eliza Lynch and visionary...
- Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies Coughlan, Patricia September 22, 2005 700+ words
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) is a historical...century Paris and Paraguay. It is a remarkable...heir of the dictator of Paraguay, on his tour of Europe...veterinarian (p.123), in Paraguay she acquires the status...moral outrageousness of Eliza Lynch's evil-queen role...
- More than an intellectual bodice ripper.(The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement Mahony, Christina Hunt March 22, 2003 700+ words
...ENRIGHT The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch Jonathan Cape, London...FIRST HEARD THE STORY OF ELIZA LYNCH from an unlikely source...the future leader of Paraguay, Francisco Solano Lopez...which brought Eliza to Paraguay. It is Enright's asides...
- Cork's queen of Paraguay
- Newspaper article from: The Irish Times SINEAD McCOOLE October 3, 2009 700+ words
...who was known in Paraguay as La Irlandesa...her reputation. Eliza Lynch (1833-1886...money. What makes Eliza Lynch a subject worthy...the dictator of Paraguay. It took a number...as the Queen of Paraguay. Her story has...The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. If you have ...
- Vietnam, sailing partners, Paraguay.(BOOKS)(TRAVEL)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 15, 2004 700+ words
...Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay (Knopf, $25, 384 pages...bizarre politics - remember that Paraguay was the hideout of several...ago, becoming curious about Paraguay while working on a farm in...story of Irish-born Madame Eliza Lynch and her relations with the...
- Paraguay
- Reference information from: World Encyclopedia January 1, 2005 700+ words
Paraguay area: 406,750sq km (157,046sq mi...xF3;n . Land and Climate The River Paraguay bisects the country. The majority of...population live between the e bank of the River Paraguay and the River Paraná , which...
- Paraguay snatches last minute heartbreaker, Egypt awaits Italy.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt) September 29, 2009 700+ words
...Paniagua used Cesar Benitez header and fired Paraguay' second goal at the last minute of the...Egypt's players and fans. Ten-man Paraguay, with a substituted captain, beat Egypt...for such a situation," Adrian Coria, Paraguay team's coach, told reporters after...
- Paraguay's president-elect vows to clean up corruption.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Hall, Kevin G. May 2, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Kevin G. Hall ASUNCION, Paraguay _ Abandoned and corroding jets of Paraguay's long-defunct national airline greet visitors...Under his Colorado Party, which has ruled Paraguay without interruption since 1947, corruption...
