Slammerkin
The compelling historical novel from the author of LEARNED BY HEART
$29.32
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2011
Summary
Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It’s a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll - a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Dol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087344 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 201mm x 29mm |
| Series: | VMC Designer Collection |
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Critics Review
“Finding a language that inhabits but is in no way weighted down by its time, Donoghue has made of an ‘obscure and brutal story’ a compelling novel … and a brilliant historical variant on the ‘girl about town.’ “–THE FINANCIAL TIMES (London)
“Donoghue has produced an absorbing, moving, and intelligent work of fiction … an exhilarating dialogue with the literature of the period and an imaginative attempt to capture the climate of change in the 1760s.”–THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (London)
About 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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