The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson Hardcover Brian Doyle

from maryreinert

I don't know how I came across this book, but is is an absolute jewel. Set in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 1800's, Robert Lewis Stevenson is a struggling, ill young author madly in love with an older woman who has two children. The boarding house on Bush Street is run by Mary and John...

from maryreinert

I don't know how I came across this book, but is is an absolute jewel. Set in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 1800's, Robert Lewis Stevenson is a struggling, ill young author madly in love with an older woman who has two children. The boarding house on Bush Street is run by Mary and John...

from hazel1123

I liked this book so much and I really wanted to write a review to say that. But then I think the review is really hard to write simply because I don't really know how to describe the book. In the Forward the author explains that Robert Lewis Stevenson lived at a boarding house in San Francisco f...

from

There is another story, untold in this book of picturesque tales. That of the author, Brian Doyle, who considered Robert Louis Stevenson a lifelong hero and his greatest influence. Who published a book in March 2017 paying the greatest compliment by mimicking the voice and spirit of Stevenson. An...

from judithrs

The Adventures of John Carson of Several Quarters of the World: a Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson. Brian Doyle. 2017. I did not discover Doyle until after his death. He is one of the most lyrical writers I have ever read. This "biography" is the novelized story of the brief time Stevenson spent i...