The Crimson Petal and the White
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0002005271
ISBN 13
9780002005272
Category
823 English Fiction
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
838 pages
Subject
Prostitutes -- Fiction. Perfumes industry -- Fiction. Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
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Abstract
At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, childlike wife, Agnes, who manages to overcome her chronic hysteria to make her appearances during "the Season" his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie, left to the care of minions his pious brother, Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever-more disturbing confrontations with flesh all this overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Fiction
History
Historical fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michel Faber
ISBN: 0002005271 9780002005272 0006392172 9780006392170
OCLC Number: 49844860
Description: 838 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Michel Faber.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1267 |
823.914 FAB Eng.Fic. |
1 | Yes |