Ask Alice
D. J. Taylor
(Author)
Description
A quarter of a century later, in the brightly colored world of London high life, Alice Keach is queen among society hostesses. Her face stares from every gossip column. Behind her lie a marriage to a wealthy landowner and a career as a celebrated actress. But Alice has a secret, whose roots run five thousand miles away to that Kansas train ride, and a chain of connection with the potential to blow her comfortable existence apart. Ranging from the Dakota Badlands to the drawing rooms of Mayfair and the casting couches of the Edwardian theater, Ask Alice is a remarkable novel that confirms D. J. Taylor as a writer of the highest intellect, vision, and imagination.
Product Details
Price
$24.95
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Publish Date
April 01, 2010
Pages
342
Dimensions
6.58 X 1.3 X 9.26 inches | 1.08 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781605980867
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About the Author
D. J. Taylor is the author of The Lost Girls; Derby Day (nominated for the Booker Prize); and Orwell: The Life (2003), winner of the Whitbread Biography Award. D. J. is a book critic for several British newspapers and lives in London.
Reviews
A great read. It intrigues, diverts, and delights.--Susan Hill
Taylor effectively captures the sense of social upheaval that characterized the 1920s.
D. J. Taylor is remarkably under-appreciated as a novelist.
Taylor traverses turn-of-the-20th-century Kansas and the sparkling social circles of Jazz Age London in this swirl of provocative prose and cleverly conceived characters.... As Alice's life begins to unravel and the stories begin to connect, the narrative takes on the urgency of a finely crafted mystery. The novel is absorbing, wonderfully atmospheric, and loaded with intrigue; it's a wonder Taylor isn't better known.
A page-turner of the highest order. A powerful contribution to the changing practice of historical fiction.--Philippa Gregory
A clever, stylish entertainment with dark undercurrents.... The book has all the makings of Victorian high drama--a slew of colorful characters, vivid and varied scenes, precipitous changes in fortune, and inescapable revelations of long-buried secrets.
Taylor effectively captures the sense of social upheaval that characterized the 1920s.
D. J. Taylor is remarkably under-appreciated as a novelist.
Taylor traverses turn-of-the-20th-century Kansas and the sparkling social circles of Jazz Age London in this swirl of provocative prose and cleverly conceived characters.... As Alice's life begins to unravel and the stories begin to connect, the narrative takes on the urgency of a finely crafted mystery. The novel is absorbing, wonderfully atmospheric, and loaded with intrigue; it's a wonder Taylor isn't better known.
A page-turner of the highest order. A powerful contribution to the changing practice of historical fiction.--Philippa Gregory
A clever, stylish entertainment with dark undercurrents.... The book has all the makings of Victorian high drama--a slew of colorful characters, vivid and varied scenes, precipitous changes in fortune, and inescapable revelations of long-buried secrets.
