Impossible Saints
$44.21
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 February 1998
Summary
Always bold, always provocative, Michele Roberts turns now to the forbidden pleasures and pains of the love between father and daughter and unfolds before us the life and death of Saint Josephine. Holy woman or whore Upholder of pious or pagan delights Lowly nun or powerful miracle worker Or both And woven throughout her story are the heady and sometimes fearful tales of other female saints - one-armed mad girls, beauties locked in towers, seductive daughters - all women who didn’t kn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860494567 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860494560 |
| Author: | Michele Roberts |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 18mm |
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Dangerously close to perfection
Dangerously close to perfection - KATE SAUNDERS, INDEPENDENT
Reaffirms Michele Robert s’ position as one of Britain’s best novelists - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYViolent and exquisite, fantastic and sardonic - SUNDAY TIMESAbout The Author
Michele Roberts
Half-English and half-French, Mich le Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award.
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