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- Number of Pages: 334
- ISBN: 0151011060
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107594418
- Release Date: October 31, 2004
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #539955 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Red Queen" by Margaret Drabble to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Red Queen"Browse more products related to "Margaret Drabble"Review"With her usual deftness and clarity, Drabble crosses cultures and centuries....Engrossing and provocative: a scarlet narrative thread reminds us how magical the novel can be in telling stories and lives." "[A] complex, deeply satisfying novel about death and rebirth, memory and immortality. It is also richly and surprisingly sensuous....Drabble is invariably perceptive and wise about her characters, gently undermining their pretentions and self-importance with irony and delicacy....[C]arefully wrought and beautifully written as it is, THE RED QUEEN is another fine addition to the Drabble oeuvre." "Nimbly jumping across time and around the globe, Drabble artfully stitches together the disparate strands of both women's lives...." Publisher's noteReceiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's tragic experiences of motherhood and childlessness in the eighteenth-century Korean court, visits the sites of the princess's life, and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home. By the author of The Seven Sisters. AnnotationIn this unusual story told from two points of view, the Red Queen is an 18th-century Korean crown princess, Hyegyong, married to the brutal, adulterous alcoholic prince. She relates her own story from the perspective of many years ahead. In a parallel narrative from the early 21st century, an academic named Babs Halliwell is reading the Red Queen's narrative en route to a conference in Seoul, identifying with the queen as she discovers that their lives contain many strands in common. At the conference, Babs finds herself changing from a dowdy frump with a highly controlled life, to the bedmate of a handsome doctor. In an epilogue, Margaret Drabble lets us know whether Babs's return to England means a return to her old life, or whether her Red Queen-inspired transformation will be permanent. If You Enjoy "The Red Queen (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Red Queen (Hardcover)" by Margaret Drabble (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Others Bestsellers
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