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Export edition (World excluding US and Canada). From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul.

Verpassen Sie nicht dieses charmant-exzentrische Buch von Edward Carey, von der berühmten Madame Tussaud selbst erzählt, über ihr merkwürdiges Leben und ihre Zeit, einschließlich der auch für sie beinahe tödlichen Französischen Revolution, der Hauptsaison für Köpfe!" Margaret Atwood 1761 wird ein winziges Mädchen namens Marie Grosholtz im Elsass geboren. Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern wird sie Gehilfin des exzentrischen Wachsbildners Doktor Cu...

Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions, parenting and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' - A. L. Kennedy 'A re-imagining of Pinocchio...

Author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted on social media from his home in Texas.

Profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions, parenting and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' - A. L. KennedyI am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a sub...

Verpassen Sie nicht dieses charmant-exzentrische Buch von Edward Carey, von der berühmten Madame Tussaud selbst erzählt, über ihr merkwürdiges Leben und ihre Zeit, einschließlich der auch für sie beinahe tödlichen Französischen Revolution, der Hauptsaison für Köpfe!" Margaret Atwood 1761 wird ein winziges Mädchen namens Marie Grosholtz im Elsass geboren. Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern wird sie Gehilfin des exzentrischen Wachsbildners Doktor Cur...

I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fishI have been eaten... So begins this haunting reimagining of the damp, dismal years endured by Pinocchio's father when trapped within the belly of the shark. In absolute isolation and with no hope of escape, Geppetto's harrowing account of man in extremis becomes the perfect vessel for something rich, strange, and quintessentially human. With unrivalled ...

Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed "Little". Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. Her role soon surpasses that of mere servant as the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his newfound companion and begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling.From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of...

From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul.