Slammerkin
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品牌: Emma Donoghue
基本信息出版社:Mariner Books (2002年5月1日)平装:408页正文语种:英语ISBN:0156007479条形码:9780156007474商品尺寸:20.4 x 13.7 x 2.7 cm商品重量:381 g品牌:Mariner BooksASIN:0156007479商品描述内容简介Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster.Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, "Slammerkin" is historical fiction for all readers.媒体推荐"A powerful and unforgiving tale of London in the 1760s...Slammerkinis a novel of real force" --ELLE Magazine, July 2001"Donoghue has produced an absorbing, moving, and intelligent work of fiction . . . an exhilarating dialogue..." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)"Finding a language that inhabits but is in no way weighted down by its time..." --The Financial Times (London)"Finding a language that inhabits but is in no way weighted down by its time, Donoghue has made of an 'obscure and brutal story' a compelling novel . . . and a brilliant historical variant on the 'girl about town.' "--THE FINANCIAL TIMES (London)
--Review"Irresistible, and deeply satisfying. Donoghue has surpassed herself." --Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2001"absorbing and entertaining...a roller-coaster ride through the 18th century. Buckle up." --Kay Chubbuck, The Baltimore Sun, June 17, 2001"an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel." --Publishers Weekly, May 21, 2001