Tipping the Velvet
'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.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.'An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaring Nineties. Imagine Jeanette Winterson on a good day collaborating with Judith Butler to pen a Sapphic Moll Flanders. It's gorgeous'Independent on Sunday'She is an ext…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86049-524-3
- EAN: 9781860495243
- Produktnummer: 1227709
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D3.4 cm 372 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 778
- Gewicht: 372
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Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London. She was awarded an OBE in 2019.
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