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21%OFFSarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet - 9781860495243 - V9781860495243
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Tipping the Velvet

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Description for Tipping the Velvet Paperback. * Sarah Water's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century - reissued with a stunning new jacket Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 378.

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

'Erotic and absorbing . . . Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860495243
SKU
V9781860495243
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

About Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn ... Read more

Reviews for Tipping the Velvet
Intelligent, witty and stylish, the novel re-imagines a lost lesbian history through vivid sensual detail, evocative period slang (the title is a sexual euphemism) and a satisfyingly complex plot
Independent
Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit. This is a lively, gutsy, highly readable debut
Observer
An unstoppable read, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Tipping the Velvet


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