| Author: | Emma Tennant | ISBN: | 9780720614596 |
| Publisher: | Peter Owen Publishers | Publication: | April 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Peter Owen Publishers | Language: | English |
| Author: | Emma Tennant |
| ISBN: | 9780720614596 |
| Publisher: | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Publication: | April 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Language: | English |
From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry James
The Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, it suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James's inability to complete his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had—none other than the dipsomaniac Mr. and Mrs. Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned.
From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry James
The Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, it suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James's inability to complete his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had—none other than the dipsomaniac Mr. and Mrs. Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned.
