Fingersmith: Sarah Waters - Brossura

Waters, Sarah

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ISBN 10: 1573229725 ISBN 13: 9781573229722

Casa editrice: Riverhead Books, 2002

Riassunto

Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot. By the author of Tipping the Velvet. Reprint.

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“Deliciously brazen...a smart and seductive enchantment.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Oliver Twist with a twist...Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”
—The New York Times Book Review 

“Astonishing narrative twists.”
—Newsday 

“Superb storytelling. Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed.”
—USA Today 

“A deftly plotted thriller...absorbing and elegant.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“A marvelous pleasure...Waters’s noted attention to historical detail and her beautifully sensitive dialogue help to anchor the force-five plot twisters.”
—The Washington Post 

“Calls to mind the feverishly gloomy haunts of Charlotte and Emily Brontë...Elaborate and satisfying.”
—The Seattle Times

“A sweeping read.”
—The Boston Globe

L'autore

Sarah Waters is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Paying Guests, The Little Stranger,The Night Watch, Fingersmith, Affinity, and Tipping the Velvet. She has three times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has twice been a finalist for the Orange Prize, and was named one of Granta’s best young British novelists, among other distinctions. Waters lives in London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Riverhead Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1573229725
• ISBN 13: 9781573229722
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608