The Beautiful Child
Author | : Emma Tennant |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780720614596 |
ISBN-13 | : 0720614597 |
Rating | : 4/5 (597 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Beautiful Child written by Emma Tennant and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry JamesThe Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, it suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James's inability to complete his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had—none other than the dipsomaniac Mr. and Mrs. Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned.