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Versailles - by Kathryn Davis (Paperback)

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  • Marie Antoinette "tells her own story" in this "sage, mercurial, and ravishing" novel (The New Yorker)Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history.
  • Author(s): Kathryn Davis
  • 224 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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"Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancâe. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will be his queen-though neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles they have been summoned to play. Antoinette finds herself hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of the palace she calls home. At once witty, entertaining, and astonishingly wise, this widely acclaimed novel is an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and-above all-time and the soul's true journey within it. Shaken free of the dust of history and calcified myth, Antoinette is "very much alive here, and she's magnificent" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review)"--



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Marie Antoinette "tells her own story" in this "sage, mercurial, and ravishing" novel (The New Yorker)

Versailles
tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancé. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will be his queen--though neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles they have been summoned to play. Antoinette finds herself hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of the palace she calls home.

At once witty, entertaining, and astonishingly wise, this widely acclaimed novel is an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and--above all--time and the soul's true journey within it. Shaken free of the dust of history and calcified myth, Antoinette is "very much alive here, and she's magnificent" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review).



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Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

"Elegant. . . . A Rich and strange meditation on the girl whose destiny was to be misunderstood by her people and by history."--Katharine Weber, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[Davis] gives us the imagined inside of events, the stuff of true art."--David Guy, The Washington Post Book World

"Kathryn Davis brings a careful hand and a clear eye to this complicated subject to create a portrait of a life that has been shaken free from history's daunting mythology."--Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books


Dimensions (Overall): 8.32 Inches (H) x 5.51 Inches (W) x .73 Inches (D)
Weight: .69 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Kathryn Davis
Language: English
Street Date: November 12, 2024
TCIN: 91733034
UPC: 9781644450987
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-6226
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.73 inches length x 5.51 inches width x 8.32 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.69 pounds
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