Life Mask
$31.37
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2005
Summary
A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.
It’s an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of high art and big business, trashy spectacles and financial disasters. Celebrities are hounded by journalists, who serve up private passions alongside public crises. Marriages stretch or break, and so do friendships; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones. In Parliament, on stage, in the bedroom, at the race track, round…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081752 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081753 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 41mm |
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She… makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today
She… makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today - Guardian
A born writer - New York Times Book Review… another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London … Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? - ElleDonoghue’s latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn’t be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl - Time OutShe… makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today - GuardianA born writer - New York Times Book Review… another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London … Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? - ElleDonoghue’s latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn’t be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl - Time OutAbout The Author
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue is an Irish novelist, playwright and historian. Her second novel HOOD won the American Library Association Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Award in 1997. She is currently adapting her novel STIR-FRY for Horizonline Films (Ireland).
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