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The crimson petal and the white / Michel Faber.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 015100692X
- ISBN: 9780151006922
- ISBN: 9780156028776
- ISBN: 0156028778
- Physical Description: 838 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harcourt, ©2002.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Streets -- The House of Ill Repute -- The Private Rooms and the Public Haunts -- The Bosom of the Family -- The World at Large. |
| Awards Note: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2003), Premio Giuseppe Acerbi (2010) |
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| Subject: | Family > Fiction. Perfumes industry > Fiction. Victorian society > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Prostitutes > Fiction. London (England)-Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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