The crimson petal and the white

Type:
boek
Titel:
The crimson petal and the white
Auteur:
Faber, Michel
Jaar:
2003
Taal:
Engels
Uitgever:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2003
Paginering:
838 p.
Plaatsnummer:
PENTA.FICTION FABE 03 (PENTA)
ISBN:
9781841954318
Onderwerp:
Fiction
Samenvatting:
Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon smells like love. Her social rise attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.
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