"An amazing achievement...
A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison.
Born in England, he now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his wife, the author Elizabeth Mc Cracken, and their family..
Carey is also the author of two adult novels, Observatory Mansions and Alva & Irva.
His acclaimed YA series, the Iremonger Trilogy, was a fan favorite, with citations for Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews.
About the Author: Edward Carey is a novelist, visual artist, and playwright.
In the tradition of Gregory Maguire\'s Wicked and Erin Morgenstern\'s The Night Circus, Edward Carey\'s Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel--a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love. at the wax museum, heads are what they do. . .
But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and .
As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth.
Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation.
After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son.
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland.
Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." --Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. "An amazing achievement...
A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison
