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Title: Little
Author: CAREY EDWARD
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2018
Imprint: GALLIC BOOKS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
Exuberant and utterly distinctive, LITTLE recalls a momentous stretch of French history through
the eyes of Marie Groscholtz, who survives the harshest of beginnings and most violent of
revolutions to craft her place in history.
LITTLE is a stunning artefact of a novel; a wonderfully grisly reimagining of the life and times of
Madame Tussaud. Carey weaves a tale of heartfelt sympathy and jet-black humour; eccentric
oddity and utter enchantment.
Dickensian in style with an unforgettable cast of characters, LITTLE is a masterpiece for modern
times.
AUTHOR:
Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, England. He is a novelist, visual artist and has also written
and directed a number of plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State
Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic
Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio. He is the author of the
novels Observatory Mansions, Alva and Irva, and the acclaimed YA series The Iremonger Trilogy,
which has been published in thirteen countries and has been optioned for film adaptation. After
university, Edward worked at Madame Tussaud in London, preventing people from touching the
waxworks, and it was there that he learnt the incredible story of the museum’s founder. Edward
lives in Austin, Texas in the United States, and teaches at the University of Austin.
ISBN: 9781910709399
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm