Sleep, Pale Sister Paperback - 2005
by Joanne Harris
Harris' early novel, never before published in the United States, is a powerful, darkly Gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life. An illicit love draws a controlling artist's wife into a dangerous world of intrigue, blackmail, and revenge.
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From the rear cover
Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.
Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface.
Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Details
- Title Sleep, Pale Sister
- Author Joanne Harris
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2005-08-30
- ISBN 9780060787110 / 0060787112
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.34 x 1.01 in (20.42 x 13.56 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004065066
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/2005, Page 63
- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 59
- Library Journal, 09/15/2005, Page 55
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