Slammerkin
1st U.S. ed.
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveslammerkin000dono
- Internet Archiveslammerkin0000dono_z7g8
- ISBN-100151006725
- ISBN-139780151006724
- Goodreads511848
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- LibraryThing7324
- Library of Congress Control Number00049867
- OCLC Control Number45916476
- Better World Books9780151006724
- Open LibraryOL6789555M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6054.O547 S58 2001
- LCCPR6054.O547S58 2001
Description
Exciting, riveting, historical period book about a young seamstress who through a series of misfortunes (to put it mildly) falls in with a veteran prostitute struggling to survive in big bad London.
Description
"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. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, her mother's childhood friend. There she becomes the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and lives the ordinary life of an ordinary girl.". "Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones and has a catalytic effect on the entire household, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. Ultimately, Mary 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. And it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that will finally lead Mary to disaster."--BOOK JACKET.
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