| Author: | Rikki Ducornet | ISBN: | 9781938103971 |
| Publisher: | Dzanc Books | Publication: | July 19, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Dzanc Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rikki Ducornet |
| ISBN: | 9781938103971 |
| Publisher: | Dzanc Books |
| Publication: | July 19, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Dzanc Books |
| Language: | English |
"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d'art, is on trial because of her collaboration with the Marquis de Sade. Heads will roll unless the independent fan-maker, erotically cast in the shadow of Sade, can justify her art and friendships to a court known for its rigid and prudish proprieties.
"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d'art, is on trial because of her collaboration with the Marquis de Sade. Heads will roll unless the independent fan-maker, erotically cast in the shadow of Sade, can justify her art and friendships to a court known for its rigid and prudish proprieties.
