Slammerkin
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Price:
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$19.99
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On Sale:
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15/05/2009
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Formats:
Trade PB
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Born to rough cloth in
working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace—a desire
that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown
to virtuous young women. In the end, it is clothes, their splendour and their
deception, that bring Mary to the brink of disaster. Slammerkin is both a
brilliant evocation of another era and a timeless tale of the rage of
adolescence.
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Critical Praise for
Slammerkin
“A rock-solid novel of class conflict and desire.”
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NOW Magazine
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