03241cam a2200361 4500 523130733 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547538471 0547538472 B004H1U288 Amazon 99b8bb77-2554-4eff-ae4f-9897c7a46d12 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 574369 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Faber, Michel. The Crimson Petal and the White [Libby] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1407kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p><b>A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed "big, sexy, bravura a novel" (Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i>).</b><br /> <br /> <i>London, 1870s</i>. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman's struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. Infatuated with Sugar, William's patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during "the Season"; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox; as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions.<br /> <br /> Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, <i>The Crimson Petal and the White</i> is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters. "Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, [Faber] is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens. . . . It's hopeless to resist" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>).</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/99B/8BB/77/CrimsonPetalandtheWhite9780547538471.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99B8BB77-2554-4EFF-AE4F-9897C7A46D12&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/99B/8BB/77/CrimsonPetalandtheWhite9780547538471.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99B8BB77-2554-4EFF-AE4F-9897C7A46D12&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/99B/8BB/77/CrimsonPetalandtheWhite9780547538471.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99B8BB77-2554-4EFF-AE4F-9897C7A46D12&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)