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Tipping The Velvet
- Author
- Sarah Waters
- Narrator
- Juanita McMahon
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 25 September 2014
- Run Time
- 19 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.5 (2 reviews)
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What to expect
A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.
Critics Review
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Intelligent, witty and stylish, the novel re-imagines a lost lesbian history through vivid sensual detail, evocative period slang (the title is a sexual euphemism) and a satisfyingly complex plot
Independent
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Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit. This is a lively, gutsy, highly readable debut
Observer
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An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaring Nineties. Imagine Jeanette Winterson on a good day collaborating with Judith Butler to pen a Sapphic Moll Flanders. It's gorgeous
Independent on Sunday
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This could be the most important debut of its kind since that of Jeanette Winterson
Daily Telegraph
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An extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit in a skilled, multi-layered pastiche of the lesbian historical romance
Observer
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Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power
New York Times Book Review
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Wonderful... a sensual experience that leaves the reader marveling at the author's craftsmanship, idiosyncrasy, and sheer effort
San Francisco Chronicle
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Compelling... readers of all sexes and orientations should identify with this gutsy hero as she learns who she is and how to love
Newsday
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Delectable... written in roguishly lilting prose filled with the sights, sounds and stenches of London street life
Seattle Times
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Glorious... an exceptional debut
Boston Globe
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Richly entertaining... Waters's debut offers terrific entertainment: swiftly paced, crammed with colorful depictions of 1890s London and vividly sketched Dickensian supporting characters, pulsating with highly charged (and explicitly presented) erotic heat
Kirkus
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This lush tale fearlessly and feverishly exposes the political, social and sexual subversions of Victorian-era gender-benders: sapphists, libertines and passing women... Waters is a masterful storyteller... Nancy's search for love and identity is a raucous, passionate adventure and a rare, thrilling read
Publishers Weekly
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If you need your smut to be smart as well as steamy, Waters' 1998 debut might be right up your alley, so to speak. Imagine if Charles Dickens had been brave enough to centre lesbians and strap-ons in his work, and you're getting somewhere close to the brutal beauty and acerbic wit Waters conjures up on every page
i Paper
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Groundbreaking . . . the way Waters writes female desire is enjoyable, to quote one gay woman of my acquaintance, "regardless of persuasion"
Good Housekeeping
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Waters
- Narrator
- Juanita McMahon
- Duration
- 19 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781405532693
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.5(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.
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