· Fiction - paperback; Canongate; pages; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White is, quite simply, an astounding literary accomplishment. Within its plus pages unfolds a story that draws the reader into another time and place so expertly that you feel as if you, too, are treading the streets of Victorian-era London. Critics Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · The Crimson Petal and the White. by Michel Faber. Canongate £, pp Early on in this voluminous novel, the 'criticisin' of books becomes Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · We invite you, dear readers, to peruse the pages o f The Crimson Petal and the White, a deliciously Dickensian jaunt through Victorian London that smacks of the city’s seedier quarters. Full of scheming whores, surly servants, simpering society ladies and smartly dressed gents, the book’s as rollicking, bawdy and brilliant a yarn as aught that’s come out of the Empire since Mrs. Brown sat .
Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. Her rise is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes. Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White is, quite simply, an astounding literary accomplishment. Within its plus pages unfolds a story that draws the reader into another time and place so expertly that you feel as if you, too, are treading the streets of Victorian-era London. Review. Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of.
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber pp, Canongate, £ Michel Faber has produced the novel that Dickens might have written had he been allowed to speak freely. "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michel Faber Praised by critics as an erotic Victorian page-turner, this literary hit is addictive, it's true -- but its attitude toward sex is disturbing. Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White 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.
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