Title: The Looking Glass
Author: Michèle Roberts
Published: 2013
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312420833
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Extension: EPUB
Size: 264 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Categories: Fiction, Literature
A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee.
Geneviève is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small French village. A teller and collector of stories, she is entranced by Madame Patin's oft-told folktales, which mask cunning and doom beneath beauty. As Geneviève grows into a woman, her life becomes both more sensual and more dangerous. She flees her village home, escaping to another word-spinner, a poet who captivates women - his mother, his mistress, his niece's governess, and, soon, Geneviève. The poet is kind, but he too is a collector of stories - and sometimes of secrets beyond words.
An exquisite, knowing, and irresistible novel, The Looking Glass introduces to an American audience "one of Britian's best novelists" (The Independent on Sunday).
Download Michele Roberts - The Looking Glass
