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The Modern Fairies
Taschenbuch von Clare Pollard
Sprache: Englisch

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD

'A novel with oodles of charm' The Times

'Elegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment


Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.

'Funny, filthy, dancingly clever ... A delectable confection of many-layered pleasures ... I gobbled it all up, Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre

'The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... Reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now' The New York Times

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD

'A novel with oodles of charm' The Times

'Elegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment


Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.

'Funny, filthy, dancingly clever ... A delectable confection of many-layered pleasures ... I gobbled it all up, Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre

'The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... Reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now' The New York Times

Über den Autor
Clare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Her first novel, Delphi , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. The Modern Fairies is her second novel.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
242 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241672464
ISBN-10: 0241672465
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pollard, Clare
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Clare Pollard
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,182 kg
Artikel-ID: 130104244
Über den Autor
Clare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Her first novel, Delphi , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. The Modern Fairies is her second novel.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
242 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241672464
ISBN-10: 0241672465
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pollard, Clare
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Clare Pollard
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,182 kg
Artikel-ID: 130104244
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