A Factory of Cunning

Stockley, Philippa

Omschrijving

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley's American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox?on the run from a scandalous French past?who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates?places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business. A Factory of Cunning takes readers to the world immortal­ized in Dangerous Liaisons. And, like Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.
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Schrijver
Stockley, Philippa
Titel
A Factory of Cunning
Uitgever
Houghton Mifflin
Jaar
2006
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
364
Gewicht
354 gr
EAN
9780156030670
Afmetingen
197 x 133 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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