Kathryn Davis

Versailles

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Produktbeschreibung

"Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancâe. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will be his queen-though neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles they have been summoned to play. Antoinette finds herself hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of the palace she calls home. At once witty, entertaining, and astonishingly wise, this widely acclaimed novel is an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and-above all-time and the soul's true journey within it. Shaken free of the dust of history and calcified myth, Antoinette is "very much alive here, and she's magnificent" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review)"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graywolf Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781644450987
• ISBN-10: 1644450984
• Artikelnr.: 69924150

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Davis is the author of six novels. She has received the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She teaches at Washington University, and lives in Vermont and St. Louis, Missouri.