The Queen's Lover
By Francine Du Plessix Gray
By Francine Du Plessix Gray
By Francine Du Plessix Gray
Read by Edoardo Ballerini
By Francine Du Plessix Gray
Read by Edoardo Ballerini
Category: Historical Fiction
Category: Historical Fiction | Audiobooks
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Jun 14, 2012 | ISBN 9781101572320
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Jun 14, 2012 | ISBN 9781101564325
640 Minutes
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Praise
“If you liked Antonia Fraser’s Marie Antoinette or Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall — if you admired Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s close lens in The General in His Labyrinth — you will be richly rewarded by du Plessix Gray’s amalgam of history and drama. Read it for its insights on Versailles; read it for its eye-opening glimpses into an equally venal Stockholm. But read it, when all is said and done, for its heartbreakingly wistful romance."—Marie Arana, The Washington Post
“The voice of history rises up out of the pages of [this] persuasive new novel. [A] lively, incredibly readable, definitely R-rated version of the life and death of Marie Antoinette.” – Alan Cheuse, NPR
“Ms. Gray has created fully developed, flawed and complex characters in a way that would probably not have been possible within the confines of biography. [She] conjures up a world she knows well, in riveting detail. [The Queen’s Lover is] a feat of research and imagination.”—Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal
“Don’t remember anything about the French Revolution from high school? This is one of those books where you’ll learn – or relearn – history effortlessly, as du Plessix Gray spins the affair of Marie Antoinette and a Swedish count into riveting drama.” – Entertainment Weekly
“[A] triumph of scholarship and storytelling… a remarkable book.”—Daily Beast
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