{"product_id":"littlebooks","title":"Little","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself.\" —Gregory Maguire, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of Gregory Maguire's \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e and Erin Morgenstern's \u003ci\u003eThe Night Circus\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Carey's \u003ci\u003eLittle\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.","brand":"Carey, Edward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47894309929184,"sku":null,"price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_236ca660-949f-4840-bc37-c5310fcd6092.jpg?v=1760879749","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/littlebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}