{"product_id":"little-9780525534334","title":"Little","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525534334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Edward Carey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38470888816821,"sku":"9780525534334","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_80ce12c3-0bda-4105-a6af-ff66650b5798.jpg?v=1612927539","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/little-9780525534334","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}