The looking glass
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A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee. Geneviève 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 Geneviève 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, Geneviève. The poet is kind, but he too is a collector of stories - and sometimes of secrets beyond words.
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| Last Grouping Update | 2025-11-01 16:13:42PM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-11-06 01:36:41AM |
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A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee. Geneviève 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 Geneviève 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, Geneviève. The poet is kind, but he too is a collector of stories - and sometimes of secrets beyond words.
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Women household employees -- Fiction
Electronic books. -- Fiction
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France -- Fiction
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Poets -- Fiction
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