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The Crimson Petal and the White (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156028776)
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xA 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).
Author: Michel Faber
ISBN-10: 0156028778
ISBN-13: 9780156028776
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/10/2003 pg. 24
Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2003 09/01/2003 pg. 1
Romantic Times 11/01/2003 pg. 48 - Excellent
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 04/06/2012 pg. 45
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).
Author: Michel Faber
ISBN-10: 0156028778
ISBN-13: 9780156028776
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/10/2003 pg. 24
Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2003 09/01/2003 pg. 1
Romantic Times 11/01/2003 pg. 48 - Excellent
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 04/06/2012 pg. 45
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