The Snow Ball
Eley Williams
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Description
So original and refreshing. -- Hilary Mantel
Brilliantly seductive ... A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat. -- Sarah Waters
Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence. -- Iris Murdoch
A great novel ... A swirling, sumptuous, sensual feast. -- Guardian
A feminist remodelling of libertine fervour and passion ... Fiction at its finest. -- Eley Williams
London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of a masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a dance of seduction charged by clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter ... A scandalous sensation in 1964, Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ball is ripe to seduce a new generation of readers.
Product Details
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Publish Date | October 19, 2021 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780571362875 |
| Dimensions | 7.7 X 5.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds |
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Reviews
What a pleasure it is to come upon a novel which so palpably enjoys itself ... Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence. -- Iris Murdoch
Concerned as it is with the developments of three erotic relationships during a masked ball, it makes Mary McCarthy's The Group seem tame. -- Guardian
A miracle ... Society is touched by the magic of make-believe, a magic behind whose childlike gaiety there is a wholly adult melancholy, a deep preoccupation with the impermanence of love and the inevitability of death. -- Times
A marvel - at once so sensual and so intelligent, so decadent and so cutting, and wickedly funny in the bargain. -- Merve Emre
Pitch-perfect ... Witty, unexpectedly moving and a revelation again of Brophy's originality. -- Ali Smith on The King of a Rainy Country
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