|
|
Sheri Holman ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
1 |
Sheri Holman The Dress Lodger
Atlantic Monthly Pr 2000 0871137534 / 9780871137531 Hardcover Very Good
"'() The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary--''Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student''--casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humor, adversities, and disease of an early-19th-century industrial city. Fifteen-year-old Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, prostitute by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by an indefatigable, mysterious old woman ''called Eyeball or Evil Eye or Gray Sister by boys who have read their Homer, but mostly called just plain Eye.'' Otherwise how could he guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which Gustine rents herself? Her trade, he e'''' ID: mon0000079837"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
Sheri Holman The Dress Lodger
Atlantic Monthly Pr 2000 0871137534 / 9780871137531 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket)() The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary-- ID: mon0000067434"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
