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Linda Urbach
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Fiction
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2011
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Random House Publishing Group;Bantam Books Trade P
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English
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Madame Bovary's daughter: a novel [of fashion and fortune]: novel
โ Scribed by Linda Urbach
- Book ID
- 100268067
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385343876
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โฆ Synopsis
Picking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubertโs classic, Madame Bovary, this beguiling novel imagines an answer to the question *Whatever happened to Emma Bovaryโs orphaned daughter?*
One year after her motherโs suicide and just one day after her fatherโs brokenhearted demise, twelve-year-old Berthe Bovary is sent to live on her grandmotherโs impoverished farm. Amid the beauty of the French countryside, Berthe models for the painter Jean-Franรงois Millet, but fate has more in store for her than a quiet life of simple pleasures. Bertheโs determination to rise above her motherโs scandalous past will take her from the dangerous cotton mills of Lille to a convent in Rouen to the wealth and glamour of nineteenth-century Paris. There, as an apprentice to famed fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, Berthe is ushered into the high society of which she once only dreamed. But even as the praise for her couture gowns steadily rises, she still yearns for the one thing her mother never had: the love of someone she loves in return.
Brilliantly integrating one of classic literatureโs fictional creations with real historical figures, Madame Bovaryโs Daughter is an uncommon coming-of-age tale, a splendid excursion through the rags and the riches of French fashion, and a sweeping novel of poverty and wealth, passion and revenge.
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ISBN : 9780440423416
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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