The Queen of the Night Paperback - 2016
by Alexander Chee
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- Title The Queen of the Night
- Author Alexander Chee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date 2016
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0544925475I5N00
- ISBN 9780544925472 / 0544925475
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.6 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 4.06 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
New York Times Book Review Editors Choice - An Indie Next Pick
Dazzling. Wall Street Journal - A brilliant performance. Washington Post
Sweeping, richly detailed. People - Masterful. Wired - Spellbinding. BuzzFeed
A wild opera of a novel, * The Queen of the Night tells the mesmerizing story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the glamour and terror of Second Empire France. She became a sensation of the Paris Opera, with every accolade but an original role her chance at immortality. When one is offered to her, she finds the libretto is based on her deepest secret, something only four people have ever known. But who betrayed her? With epic sweep, gorgeous language, and haunting details, ** Alexander Chee shares Lilliet s cunning transformation from circus rider to courtesan to legendary soprano, retracing the path that led to the role that could secure her reputation or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.
If Lilliet Berne were a man, she might have been what nineteenth-century novels would call a swashbuckler: the kind of destiny-courting, death-defying character who finds intrigue and peril (and somehow, always, a fantastic pair of pantaloons) around every corner. Entertainment Weekly
Alexander Chee is the author of two novels and the recipient of a Whiting Award and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and on NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He lives in New York City.
* The Guardian
** Hanya Yanagihara"
Dazzling. Wall Street Journal - A brilliant performance. Washington Post
Sweeping, richly detailed. People - Masterful. Wired - Spellbinding. BuzzFeed
A wild opera of a novel, * The Queen of the Night tells the mesmerizing story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the glamour and terror of Second Empire France. She became a sensation of the Paris Opera, with every accolade but an original role her chance at immortality. When one is offered to her, she finds the libretto is based on her deepest secret, something only four people have ever known. But who betrayed her? With epic sweep, gorgeous language, and haunting details, ** Alexander Chee shares Lilliet s cunning transformation from circus rider to courtesan to legendary soprano, retracing the path that led to the role that could secure her reputation or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.
If Lilliet Berne were a man, she might have been what nineteenth-century novels would call a swashbuckler: the kind of destiny-courting, death-defying character who finds intrigue and peril (and somehow, always, a fantastic pair of pantaloons) around every corner. Entertainment Weekly
Alexander Chee is the author of two novels and the recipient of a Whiting Award and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and on NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He lives in New York City.
* The Guardian
** Hanya Yanagihara"
