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The Modern Fairies

Af: Clare Pollard Engelsk Hardback

The Modern Fairies

Af: Clare Pollard Engelsk Hardback
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''Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed'' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent

''The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... This memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now'' THE NEW YORK TIMES

Why don''t they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?


Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV''s fever dream. It''s a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you''ll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d''Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.


''Funny, filthy, dancingly clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It reminded me of Jeanette Winterson''s The Passion, and I gobbled it all up'' JOANNA QUINN, author of The Whalebone Theatre

''Original, fantastical, historical, and unputdownable'' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

''Pollard''s future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed'' THE I, praise for Delphi

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''Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed'' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent

''The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... This memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now'' THE NEW YORK TIMES

Why don''t they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?


Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV''s fever dream. It''s a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you''ll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d''Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.


''Funny, filthy, dancingly clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It reminded me of Jeanette Winterson''s The Passion, and I gobbled it all up'' JOANNA QUINN, author of The Whalebone Theatre

''Original, fantastical, historical, and unputdownable'' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

''Pollard''s future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed'' THE I, praise for Delphi

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780241672457
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0241672457
Kategori: Versailles
Udg. Dato: 13 jun 2024
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 145mm
Højde: 222mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 13 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Clare Pollard
Forfatter(e) Clare Pollard


Kategori Versailles


ISBN-13 9780241672457


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 145mm


Højde 222mm


Udg. Dato 13 jun 2024


Oplagsdato 13 jun 2024


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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