Slammerkin -

Emma Donoghue

Harcourt

2002

408 páginas

13h 36m

ISBN-10: 0156007479

Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster.
Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, Slammerkin is historical fiction for all readers.

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5 (Perfeito)

um dos melhores livros que já li na vida! na minha humildade opinião é um dark academia que merece mais amor.

o conteúdo é pesado, por muitas vezes triste e você entra no livro sabendo do desfecho — mesmo assim é impossível não torcer para um final diferente para mary saunders, uma menina jogada ao submundo das ruas no século 18 e tentando sobreviver em meio a tanta violência, encontrando em roupas um relance de felicidade.