01854cam a2200325 4500 144420992 TxAuBib 20101112120000.0 020410s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002024138 9780151006922 015100692X (OCoLC)49611026 DLC DLC GYG C#P OrLoB-B TxAuBib Faber, Michel. The crimson petal and the white / Michel Faber. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harcourt, 2002. 838 p. ; 24 cm. Originally published: Edinburgh : Canongate, c2002. "Michel Faber leads us back to 187Os London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape into a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian Society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters." "They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage of her brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, child-like wife, Agnes; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever-more disturbing confrontations with flesh."--BOOK JACKET. 20091021. Perfumes industry Fiction. Young women Fiction. Prostitutes Fiction. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. TXFLO