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The Looking Glass
A Novel
Author: Michele Roberts
The Looking Glass
$21.00
About This Book
Book Details
An orphan enchanted by stories and the incantatory power of words, Genevieve lives an isolated existence as a maid to the widow Patin in a village cafe on the Normandy coast in the early 20th century. Forced to flee the village, she comes under the spell of a charismatic spinner of words, a poet who captivates every woman around him -- his mother, his mistress, his niece, his niece's governess, and eventually, his new maid, who soon begins to spin a story of her own.
Imprint Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9780312420833
In The News
“To read The Looking Glass...is to experience a succession of pleasures.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Erotic tension blooms in sensual prose....[Roberts] has a gift for making the ordinary extraordinary.” —People
“[A] hypnotically sensuous new novel....[Its] assured, image-rich language...adds up to a palpable immediacy, an intimacy not usually associated with historical fiction.” —Los Angeles Times
“The Looking Glass holds up a mirror to the dark sources of creativity at every stage of its carefully interlocked narrative....The gorgeous surfaces of the world, its earthy passions, lend the novel a sensual texture...that reflects desire, glimpsing the springs of creativity and the contours of a bygone age.” —The New York Times Book Review