Elizabeth Hand

" Je voyais des choses que les autres ne voyaient pas. "
Photographe punk expérimentale, Cass Neary a connu son quart d'heure de gloire warholien dans le New York des années 1970. Ce qui n'était pas prévu, c'est qu'elle y survive. Vingt ans plus tard, c'est une quadragénaire has been ayant gardé de sa folle jeunesse, outre un penchant prononcé pour les paradis artificiels, une profonde et incurable nostalgie…

Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await her passionate majesty?

Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon?…