The Snow Ball

Informationen zum Autor Brigid Brophy Klappentext When Anna is kissed by a mysterious stranger at a masquerade ball, a heady dance of seduction begins ... So original and refreshing. -- Hilary Mantel Brilliantly seductive ... A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat. -- Sarah Waters Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence. -- Iris Murdoch A great novel ... A swirling, sumptuous, sensual feast. -- Guardian A feminist remodelling of libertine fervour and passion ... Fiction at its finest. -- Eley Williams London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of a masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a dance of seduction charged by clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter ... A scandalous sensation in 1964, Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ball is ripe to seduce a new generation of readers. Vorwort When Anna is kissed by a mysterious stranger at a masquerade ball , a dance of seduction begins ... 'A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat' (Sarah Waters); 'So original and refreshing' (Hilary Mantel) Zusammenfassung When Anna is kissed by a mysterious stranger at a NYE masquerade ball, a dance of seduction begins. 'So original and refreshing.' Hilary Mantel'Brilliantly seductive ...

Product details

• Authors: Brigid Brophy, Brophy Brigid, Eley Williams
• Assisted by: Eley Williams (Introduction), Williams Eley (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780571362875
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36287-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Satirical fiction & parodies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Regency Period (c 1811 to c 1820)