Little by Edward Carey
An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself. --Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do. In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel--a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
'A story wondrous fine, full of terrors and marvels'--Kirkus, Starred Review 'Iremonger torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable misfits. Read it by gas lamp, with a glass of absinthe at your wrist and a fireplace poker by your knee.'--Gregory Maguire, author of WICKED
EDWARD CAREY is a author, playwright, and illustrator. He has worked in theatre in the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Romania, as well as in Malaysia with a shadow puppet master. Observatory Mansions and Alva & Irva, both illustrated novels for adults, have been translated into a number of languages. He lives in Austin, Texas, and wrote the Iremonger Trilogy to make up for the fact that he missed being cold and gloomy.WEB: www.edwardcareyauthor.comTWITTER: https: //twitter.com/edwardcarey70
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910709566 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910709565 |
| Title | Little |
| Author | Edward Carey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallic Books |
| Year published | 2018-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 430 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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