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The Pride and the
Sorrow
Matt Fullerty is at work on The
Pride and the Sorrow, a novel about the
life of
New Orleans chess player Paul
Morphy. An unstable genius, Paul Morphy conquers the chess
worlds of London and Paris, becoming the youngest ever
world chess champion. He is
celebrated in fashionable European society, honored by
Napoleon III and Queen Victoria, and returns home a
hero...before he falls from grace.
 Paul
is unhinged by his love for Basin Street prostitute, Clara, who cannot
understand his world, or he hers. He is the toast of the town; she is
physically banned from the French Quarter. Paul resists gambling and dueling,
and despite
Morphy family rivalries and other distracting impulses, he takes on
the Europeans at their own game. But the
Big
Easy drinking dens and palatial brothels are never too far away...
Matt in Rotterdam ("Venice of the North"), The Netherlands,
spring 2006.
You can contact Matt Fullerty
here or by e-mail at
fullerty@gmail.com
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Matt Fullerty as born in Warrington,
England, and was educated at Manchester Grammar
School, Oxford University, and the University of East
Anglia. He is currently a PhD candidate teaching English
literature at the George Washington University,
Washington, DC. He has published reviews of poetry and
novels for the New York journal
The Saint Ann's Review.
The Pride and the Sorrow is his first
novel. He aims to complete
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Paul Morphy, the last unofficial chess world champion,
prodigy, genius, tragedy,
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