The Last Enchantments

By Charles Finch

Book Overview

The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life forever After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's soon caught up in a whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements that threaten his safe plans. As he explores the heady social world of Oxford, he becomes fast friends with Tom, his snobbish but affable flat mate; Anil, an Indian economist with a deep love for gangster rap; Anneliese, a German historian obsessed with photography; and Timmo, whose chief ambition is to become a reality television star. What he's least prepared for is Sophie, a witty, beautiful and enigmatic woman who makes him question everything he knows about himself. Charles Finch's The Last Enchantments is a sweeping novel about love and loss that redefines what it means to grow up as an American in the twenty-first century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250063256
• ISBN13: 9781250063250
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing

If you plan on buying this book because you're a fan of Finch's Lenox's series, think again. Unlike those, this one is a a tedious book, with an extremely self-centered, spoiled and boring main character. Had to simply flip through it and toss it away. It's hard to believe it's written by the same author. No doubt he should stick to writing detective stories from another era.