TIPPING THE VELVET (VIRAGO V)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1860495249 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"What a great read. Loved the characters!!" according to helen bennett. Loved this book I'm not particularly interested in lesbianism but the author was so talented it was interesting I really felt that the main character was really well portrayed so that I could really relate to her in that it just kept me wanting to know more. I am looking forward to reading more by this author. I have read finger smith which was also greatIt's a bit graphic in parts. Don't read it if you are easily shocked. But that's part of what made it interesting along with the detail that went in to setting the scenes for the reader Well worth reading one of the . Lilly Flora said Charming and completely absorbing of a search for love through the sexual underbelly of London that meanders down many roads. Based on the cover I had always assumed this book was about lesbian strippers in the late 1800's. Well, I was wrong. It' actually more about-how to say it?-the kind of sexual underground of London. What wasn't seen by polite society or talked about-lesbians, rent boys (male prostitutes) women being kept by other women, cross dressing and plane of gay men.Nancy Astley is a young girl working in her family's oyster house in Whitstable when her life is changed by an act at a nearby theater. The act is a woman named Kitty Butler who is a masher (a girl dressed as a boy) . Cliu said Great Book. I loved everything about this book except the cover art and the fact that it is not available in hardcover. I love the cover art in the limited edition but when I ordered that the seller balked on delivering it and although my money was returned I was not notified until it was too late to reorder it (I wanted it for a plane ride to Taiwan) so I had to settle for the normal edition and pay the exorbitant bookstore price because I needed it in "Great Book" according to Cliu. I loved everything about this book except the cover art and the fact that it is not available in hardcover. I love the cover art in the limited edition but when I ordered that the seller balked on delivering it and although my money was returned I was not notified until it was too late to reorder it (I wanted it for a plane ride to Taiwan) so I had to settle for the normal edition and pay the exorbitant bookstore price because I needed it in 2 days. Now on to the actual book. This book is a masterpiece however someone like me ( a 22 year old straight male) would not . days. Now on to the actual book. This book is a masterpiece however someone like me ( a "Great Book" according to Cliu. I loved everything about this book except the cover art and the fact that it is not available in hardcover. I love the cover art in the limited edition but when I ordered that the seller balked on delivering it and although my money was returned I was not notified until it was too late to reorder it (I wanted it for a plane ride to Taiwan) so I had to settle for the normal edition and pay the exorbitant bookstore price because I needed it in 2 days. Now on to the actual book. This book is a masterpiece however someone like me ( a 22 year old straight male) would not . "Great Book" according to Cliu. I loved everything about this book except the cover art and the fact that it is not available in hardcover. I love the cover art in the limited edition but when I ordered that the seller balked on delivering it and although my money was returned I was not notified until it was too late to reorder it (I wanted it for a plane ride to Taiwan) so I had to settle for the normal edition and pay the exorbitant bookstore price because I needed it in 2 days. Now on to the actual book. This book is a masterpiece however someone like me ( a 22 year old straight male) would not . year old straight male) would not
Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of a young girl whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer.
The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. --Kerry Fried. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular." Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mot