Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal And The White (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Irresistibly readable."
Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times

"The most enjoyable novel I've read all year."
Independent on Sunday

"Unbelievably pleasurable."
The Times

Step into Victorian London and meet a host of unforgettable characters - including our heroine, Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can.

"A big, sexy, bravura novel that is destined to be surpassingly popular . . . wildly entertaining."
New York Times

"An achievement which may leave you wondering if this vast work is, if anything, a little too short."
Daily Mail

"Don't miss it."
Daily Telegraph

"Smelling salts at the ready, girls."
Elle Magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673725
• Artikelnr.: 38357256

Autorenporträt

Michel Faber has written eight books, including the highly acclaimed The Fire Gospel, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.

Rezensionen

This is an unputdownable book; there is no choice but to give in to this most unbelievably pleasurable of narrative rides . . . Faber's take on the nineteenth century English novel is a heady and intoxicating mixture of affection, respect and scabrous resistance The Times