The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble
(Author)
Description
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess, Barbara tours the royal courts and develops a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life. Barbara's time in Korea goes quickly, but captivated by her experience and wanting to know more about the princess, she wonders if her life can ever be the way it was before.Product Details
Price
$19.95
Publisher
Mariner Books
Publish Date
October 03, 2005
Pages
334
Dimensions
6.46 X 1.02 X 7.98 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780156032704
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About the Author
MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.
Reviews
Editor's Choice
-- "Entertainment Weekly" (10/8/2004 12:00:00 AM)
A deliciously evocative tale of palace intrigue...one of the most inventive works of fiction in recent memory
-- "San Francisco Chronicle" (11/21/2004 12:00:00 AM)
Drabble's plain narrative tenaciousness gives her writing transparency and fire.
-- "Village Voice" (11/3/2004 12:00:00 AM)
PRAISE FOR THE RED QUEEN Drabble has written a moving tale of fate, moral responsibility and love.--San Francisco Chronicle Drabble's tale is a quiet love song to literature, an illustration as to how reader and subject become intertwined. As Yeats wrote, how can we know the dancer from the dance?--Chicago Tribune An 18th-century Korean princess tells her harrowing life story in the lyrical first half of Drabble's lovely, intelligent 16th novel. A-. - Entertainment Weekly
Drabble's tale is a love song to literature, an illustration as to how reader and subject become intertwined.
-- "Chicago Tribune" (10/3/2004 12:00:00 AM)
With her usual deftness and clarity, Drabble crosses cultures and centuries...engrossing and provocative
-- "Kirkus Reviews" (8/15/2004 12:00:00 AM)
-- "Entertainment Weekly" (10/8/2004 12:00:00 AM)
A deliciously evocative tale of palace intrigue...one of the most inventive works of fiction in recent memory
-- "San Francisco Chronicle" (11/21/2004 12:00:00 AM)
Drabble's plain narrative tenaciousness gives her writing transparency and fire.
-- "Village Voice" (11/3/2004 12:00:00 AM)
PRAISE FOR THE RED QUEEN Drabble has written a moving tale of fate, moral responsibility and love.--San Francisco Chronicle Drabble's tale is a quiet love song to literature, an illustration as to how reader and subject become intertwined. As Yeats wrote, how can we know the dancer from the dance?--Chicago Tribune An 18th-century Korean princess tells her harrowing life story in the lyrical first half of Drabble's lovely, intelligent 16th novel. A-. - Entertainment Weekly
Drabble's tale is a love song to literature, an illustration as to how reader and subject become intertwined.
-- "Chicago Tribune" (10/3/2004 12:00:00 AM)
With her usual deftness and clarity, Drabble crosses cultures and centuries...engrossing and provocative
-- "Kirkus Reviews" (8/15/2004 12:00:00 AM)
