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Step into Victorian London and meet a host of unforgettable characters - including our heroine, Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Michel Faber
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 845
- Publisher
- List, Canongate, Harcourt
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780547538471
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