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The Courage Consortby Michel FaberISBN 1841952265 (1-84195-226-5)
Softcover, Canongate Crime
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage Consort'Book summary:Admirers of Belgian writer Michel Faber's magnificent breakthrough novel, The Crimson Petal and the White, may be surprised by how well his taut but unhurried prose translates to shorter fiction in the three novellas of The Courage Consort. It helps, of course, that the stories--minor marvels of suspenseful pacing and atmosphere--are unified by a large, old-fashioned theme: the loss of innocence (and, in one case, the struggle to preserve it). In the title story, an English vocal ensemble travels to Belgium for a two-week residency at a rural chateau, an opportunity to rehearse a notoriously difficult and possibly pointless new composition. Catherine, the soprano--and the dependent, emotionally fragile wife of the ensemble's director--hears plangent cries from the surrounding woods each night. Like Mrs. Dalloway, Catherine feels herself approaching middle age without having achieved adulthood. If she goes into the woods--facing the ghostly legend of a simple-minded mother and her baby, lost there near the end of World War II--will she find her grown-up self? The second novella, "The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps," traces a paper conservator's nightly unraveling of an 18th century oil merchant's tight-scrolled deathbed confession. And the third, "The Fahreinheit Twins," is one part Angela Carter, one part Jack London: a scary fairy tale translated to a glittering ice-bound wilderness.
Events that would be sensational in the hands of most writers--gruesome nightmares, hauntings, possible murders--are serenely dispatched by Faber, who has bigger emotional game in sight. And while every writer has characteristic tics and favorite phrases, the joy here is in observing Faber's growing mastery, and how few the limits on his talent. --Regina Marler [via]
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- The Courage Consort: ISBN 0156032767 (0-15-603276-7)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Courage Consort: Three Novellas: ISBN 0002005859 (0-00-200585-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Courage Consort: ISBN 0151010617 (0-15-101061-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Courage Consort: ISBN 1841952265 (1-84195-226-5)
Softcover, Canongate Crime
- The Courage Consort: ISBN 0156032767 (0-15-603276-7)
Crimewaveby Michel Faber , Shelley Costa, Andy CoxISBN 0952694751 (0-9526947-5-1)
Softcover, TTA Press
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 1407408089 (1-4074-0808-9)
Hardcover, Recorded Books, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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- The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 1841953237 (1-84195-323-7)
Hardcover, Canongate - The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 0006392172 (0-00-639217-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 0156028778 (0-15-602877-8)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 0002005271 (0-00-200527-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 015100692X (0-15-100692-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 1407408089 (1-4074-0808-9)
Hardcover, Recorded Books, LLC
- The Crimson Petal and the White: ISBN 1841953237 (1-84195-323-7)
The Fahrenheit Twinsby Michel FaberISBN 0002008912 (0-00-200891-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Stepsby Michel FaberISBN 1841951994 (1-84195-199-4)
Hardcover, Canongate
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Middlemarchby Michel FaberISBN 0451529170 (0-451-52917-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:[via]"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
George Eliots most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".More editions of Middlemarch:
Shorts: The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collectionby Michel FaberISBN 0748663193 (0-7486-6319-3)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Some Rain Must Fallby Michel FaberISBN 1841950718 (1-84195-071-8)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Some Rain Must Fall & Other Stories'Book summary:Published to outstanding critical acclaim in 1998, this work provides a collection of stories that reveal an extraordinarily visual imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. [via]
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woeby Sandra Gulland, Michel FaberISBN 000639373X (0-00-639373-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Under the Skinby Michel FaberISBN 1841950947 (1-84195-094-7)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Skin'Book summary:In the opening pages of Under the Skin, a lone female is scouting the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men: "Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her." At this point, the reader might be forgiven for anticipating some run-of-the-mill psychosexual drama. But commonplace expectation is no help when it comes to Michel Faber's strange and unsettling first novel; small details, then major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. What are the reasons for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses, her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess?
The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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Vanilla Bright like Eminemby Michel FaberISBN 0156033798 (0-15-603379-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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