{"product_id":"little-a-novel-by-edward-carey","title":"Little by Edward Carey (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself.\" —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47671122264201,"sku":"9780525534334","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/6087\/8729\/files\/9780525534334.jpg?v=1784756154","url":"https:\/\/www.nextchapterbookmobile.com\/products\/little-a-novel-by-edward-carey","provider":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}