Life Mask
Life Mask
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Summary
From the author of Slammerkin, a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century London.
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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin. It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of high art and big business, trashy spectacles and financial disasters. Celebrities are hounded by journalists, who serve up private passions alongside public crises. Marriages stretch or break, and so do friendships; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones. In Parliament, on stage, in the bedroom, at the race track, round the dinner table, old loyalties are wrenched by the winds of change. The World - as elite calls itself - is fighting to survive these chaotic times.
She. . makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today * Guardian *
A born writer * New York Times Book Review *
. . . another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London . . . Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? * Elle *
Donoghue's latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn't be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl * Time Out *
A born writer * New York Times Book Review *
. . . another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London . . . Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? * Elle *
Donoghue's latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn't be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl * Time Out *
Emma Donoghue is an Irish novelist, playwright and historian. Her second novel HOOD won the American Library Association Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Award in 1997. She is currently adapting her novel STIR-FRY for Horizonline Films (Ireland).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844081752 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844081753 |
| Title | Life Mask |
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2005-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |