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The Beautiful Child
Author(s): Emma Tennant (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 0720614813
- ISBN-13: 9780720614817
Book Description
From Emma Tennant, the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Burnt Diaries, comes an unforgettable tale inspired by Henry James. The Beautiful Child First Edition is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror in a Christmas idyll, amplified throughout by Tennant’s trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, Tennant’s story suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James’s inability to complete his tale of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had – none other than the dipsomaniac Mr and Mrs Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned…
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is not simply an updated tale or a tribute to The Master. It is also a strike for modernism, the modernism in James, a rallying call for the challenging and the difficult that lie behind the cosy terror of a ghost story. –Lesley McDowell, Glasgow Herald
Emma Tennant’s cunning, moody and bone-chilling new story inspired by “The Turn of the Screw” –Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
–The Independent
Like The Turn Of The Screw, Emma Tennant narrates a tale within a tale, with many surprises and twists; it culminates in a truly chilling denouement that may keep you up at night. –The Lady
A ghost story that is both postmodern and Jamesian –Publishers Weekly
An enjoyable diversion, and Jamesians will find much here to please and flatter them –Times Literary Supplement
