The Looking Glass
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
- Publish date: 07/01/2001
Description:
Genevieve is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small French village. A teller and collector of stories, she is entranced by Madame Patin's oft-told folktales, which mask cunning and doom beneath beauty. As Genevieve grows into a woman, her life becomes both more sensual and more dangerous. She flees her village home, escaping to another word-spinner, a poet who captivates women -- his mother, his mistress, his niece's governess, and, soon, Genevieve. The poet is kind, but he too is a collector of stories -- and sometimes of secrets beyond words.
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