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Rent Abundance of Marie Antoinette
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Narrator: Susanna Burney
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published: Oct 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $39.95
Discs: 10
Synopsis
Published the same month as the U.S. release of Sofia Coppola's film MARIE-ANTOINETTE, Sena Jeter Naslund's novel takes a similarly forgiving angle on the young French queen who became the most famous guillotine victim of the French Revolution. In place of the vain and indifferent queen, Naslund imagines a na've young woman caught up in a life of sudden excess and spectacle, surrounded by scheming courtiers and a country in the throes of civil unrest. Naslund's novel is rich with historical texture, but it is her intimate prose that pulls us inexorably into the short, lush, and tragic life of Marie Antoinette.
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