Advance Reading Copy. 8vo. 105 pp. Plain cream white wraps.
Short novella focusing on Robert Louis Stevenson's – the creator of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – final days on the island of Samoa. By the acclaimed Argentinian essayist and novelist, author of A History of Reading (1996), and News from a Foreign Country Came (1991).
"A small but rich little instant classic, as though Joseph Conrad had sent up a perfect new tale." –Kirkus Reviews