Sarah Waters
ebook | Pages: 592 pages Rating: 4.03 | 72543 Users | 5330 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Fingersmith |
| ISBN: | 1101057025 (ISBN13: 9781101057025) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sue Trinder, Maud Lilly, Gentleman, Mrs. Sucksby |
| Setting: | London, England |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2002), Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (2003), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2002), CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (2002), Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (2003) このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2005) |
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Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.Itemize Epithetical Books Fingersmith
| Title | : | Fingersmith |
| Author | : | Sarah Waters |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 592 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2002 by Riverhead Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Mystery. Romance |
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This totally wonderful novel does exactly what the title says, it fingers your myth, it steals up on your soul and breathes down its neck and a shudder of pleasure is felt to the ends of all your extremities, your brain will wobble, your hair will vibrate strongly, and your eyebrows will be thrust up and down like energetic trampolining children as the intricate-clockmaker plot fastens your eyes ravenously to every page - draw the curtains, do not charge the mobile phone, tell your friends youPigeons and pearls. Perceptions and palpability. Id explain in detail, but that would spoil all the fun. Instead, as elliptically as I can, Ill hint at their relevance with vague allusions. Sue was an orphan in Victorian London, raised among thieves. Despite the fact that in the hierarchy of larceny her lot were never more than petite bourgeoisie, Sues existence was not as Dickensian as it might have been. Baby farmer Mrs. Sucksby seemed to take a particular shine to Sue, and more or less raised
Part 1 = Amazing. Part 2 and 3 = Is this book over yet?!
From the first chapter, I knew that I not only loved this book, but that it was going to be one of my favourites, one of those that feels like it has imprinted itself on you. I simply adored everything about it. It's a book that I want to press everyone to read, because I think it's a perfect book -- even though realistically I realise that my idea of a perfect book may not be your idea of a perfect book.This is divided into three parts, all wonderful, though the third was my favourite. I don't
A friend knocked on my door one evening and I answered, looking disheveled and I think a bit frightened. She asked me what was wrong, if she had interrupted something. I said no, that I had just been reading Fingersmith and I was really stressed out because now I had to leave the house and didn't know what was going to happen next. And that is basically how this book took over my life (in a good way).Sue is an orphan who lives in London in a house of petty thieves. A con man known as Gentleman
If you like being tortured or sit on pins and needles for an entire read, and by entire read I mean THE ENTIRE READ from the first line to the very last, then this is the book for you. And, damn, this thing is nearly 600 pages or 23 hrs if you're listening to the audiobook.On the final line of the last page I felt like I emerged from a bunker since sinister doom was around the corner at every turn.What saves it, though, is that the book is brilliant and well-crafted. The prose is rich, every
Reread December 2016 after seeing THE HANDMAIDEN. -------------A superbly written novel, full of great twists and turns. You may be able to guess some of what's going on, but the author will still surprise you with daring prose and unexpected red herrings. If you've never read the author before (as I had not) I'd recommend not reading ANY reviews about the book, not even the Amazon general description. The book jacket and this http://orangeprizeproject.blogspot.co... should whet your appetite
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