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The Crimson Petal And The White

Af: Michel Faber Engelsk Paperback

The Crimson Petal And The White

Af: Michel Faber Engelsk Paperback
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A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura novel” (New York Times).

London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. Infatuated with Sugar, William’s patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during “the Season”; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox; as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions.

Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters.

"Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens. . . . It''s hopeless to resist" (Entertainment Weekly).
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A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura novel” (New York Times).

London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. Infatuated with Sugar, William’s patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during “the Season”; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox; as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions.

Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters.

"Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens. . . . It''s hopeless to resist" (Entertainment Weekly).
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 928
ISBN-13: 9780156028776
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0156028778
Kategori: Scotland
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2003
Længde: 46mm
Bredde: 206mm
Højde: 137mm
Forlag: HarperCollins
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2003
Forfatter(e): Michel Faber
Forfatter(e) Michel Faber

Kategori Scotland

ISBN-13 9780156028776

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 928

Udgave

Længde 46mm

Bredde 206mm

Højde 137mm

Udg. Dato 1 sep 2003

Oplagsdato 1 sep 2003

Forlag HarperCollins

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