Little Carey EdwardPaperback / softback
Little Carey EdwardPaperback / softback The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals alike, who transforms herself into the…
Specifikacia Little Carey EdwardPaperback / softback
Little Carey EdwardPaperback / softback
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals alike, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Alsace.
As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . .
at the wax museum, heads are what they do. Edward Carey's Little is a wonder -