Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world.
With the lavish imaginative richness of Marquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog\'s Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a b.
The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Ascuncion.
The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay.
Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world