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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Little: paperback
Author: CAREY EDWARD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/05/2019
Imprint: GALLIC BOOKS
Price: $21.00
Publishing status: Active
‘A startlingly original novel’ – Times, BOOK OF THE YEAR
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals alike, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Alsace. 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.
Edward Carey’s Little is a wonder – the incredible story of a ‘blood-stained crumb of a girl’ who went on to shape the world.
‘Rich and engrossing, there is an extraordinary potency to Carey’s material … A visceral, vivid and moving novel’ – GUARDIAN
‘Don’t miss this eccentric charmer’ – @MargaretAtwood
‘In this gloriously gruesome imagining of the girlhood of Marie Tussaud, mistress of wax, fleas will bite, rats will run and heads will roll and roll and roll. Guts’n’gore galore: I bloody loved it’ – SPECTATOR
ISBN: 9781910709535
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 400