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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156032767

ISBN-139780156032766

eBay Product ID (ePID)45591278

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Book TitleCourage Consort

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Essays

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorMichel Faber

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0 in

Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-005912

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsU.K. PRAISE FOR THE COURAGE CONSORT "His air of strange novelty is as fresh as ever; each sentence condenses the world into something surprising and illuminating." -The Guardian (London) PRAISE FOR THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE "Faber tells a good story grippingly and colorfully." -The Washington Post "A lasting love affair; the intimate relationship one develops with the characters . . . is much more satisfying than the mere one-night stand promised by most other novels."-People --, PRAISE FOR THE COURAGE CONSORT "Exotic and willfully unpredictable . . . Taken together, the stories have an unusually wide range. Mr. Faber finds odd ways to fuse brittle civility, gallows humor and a sense of real peril."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "The evocative language and intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds that dazzled readers of The Crimson Petal and the White are here in abundance."--Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times, U.K. PRAISE FOR THE COURAGE CONSORT "His air of strange novelty is as fresh as ever; each sentence condenses the world into something surprising and illuminating." -The Guardian (London) PRAISE FOR THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE "Faber tells a good story grippingly and colorfully." -The Washington Post "A lasting love affair; the intimate relationship one develops with the characters . . . is much more satisfying than the mere one-night stand promised by most other novels."-People, PRAISE FORTHE COURAGE CONSORT "Exotic and willfully unpredictable . . . Taken together, the stories have an unusually wide range. Mr. Faber finds odd ways to fuse brittle civility, gallows humor and a sense of real peril."--Janet Maslin,The New York Times "The evocative language and intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds that dazzled readers ofThe Crimson Petal and the Whiteare here in abundance."--Nick Owchar,Los Angeles Times

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisWith his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In "The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps," a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. In "The Fahrenheit Twins," strange children, identical in all but gender and left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents, create their own ritual civilization.