Bibliograph

The crimson petal and the white, Michel Faber

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The crimson petal and the white, Michel Faber

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The crimson petal and the white

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Michel Faber

Summary

One of the most talked-about novels of the year, this international bestseller gives new meaning to the term "unputdownable." Reviewers and readers everywhere have been eagerly abandoning their everyday lives for days and even weeks on end, refusing to leave Michel Faber's vividly realized fictional world. They are captivated by Sugar, an enigmatic nineteen-year-old prostitute whose story begins in a hellish nineteenth-century London brothel. Struggling to lift her body and soul out of the gutter, Sugar claws her way up the social ladder to gain refuge in the wealthy family of her besotted lover, William Rackham, unwilling heir to a perfumery. Now in the popular Perennial format, The Crimson Petal and the White is a gripping tale, extraordinarily rich, intricate and intoxicating to the final page

Target audience

adult

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