The Virgin Cure
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The Virgin Cure
Narrateur(s):
Sofia Banzhaf, Aidan deSalaiz, Martha Irving
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Narrateur(s):
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Sofia Banzhaf
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Aidan deSalaiz
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Martha Irving
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Auteur(s):
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Ami McKay
À propos de cet audio
"I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart."
The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, where eventually she meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel simply known as "The Infant School." Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions who are "willing and clean," and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth.
While Moth's housemates risk falling prey to the myth of the "virgin cure"—the belief that deflowering a girl can heal the incurable and tainted—her new friend Dr. Sadie warns Moth to question and observe the world around her so she won't share the same fate. Still, Moth dreams of answering to no one but herself. There's a high price for such independence, though, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Impossible to put down."
—Toronto Star
“Finely crafted and remarkably researched. . . . A unique achievement. . . . While set in the past, the book informs the modern dialogue on feminism, the sex trade, and choice.”
—Stacey May Fowles, The Walrus
“A worthy follow up to . . . The Birth House. . . . Character, setting, mood and plot are melded naturally to create a Dickensian world of deprivation and determination.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“A powerful novel, rooted in the same elements that made The Birth House both critically lauded and a bestseller. . . . One of McKay’s gifts and skills as a writer is her ability to utterly immerse the reader in her fictional world. . . . Affecting."
—Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
“Fans of McKay’s bestselling novel The Birth House are going to love The Virgin Cure. . . . McKay’s vivid prose can trigger in readers the taste of a hot bowl of oyster stew, the reek of Chrystie Street tenement houses and the sound of a taffeta skirt’s hem brushing the floor of a concert saloon. . . . It’s difficult not to swiftly turn the pages of The Virgin Cure.”
—Maclean’s
“A lovely novel, written in a style that is both clean and subtle. McKay’s voices are true; her characters sympathetic. . . . I’m certain readers will take to The Virgin Cure just as they did The Birth House.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“A powerful new voice in Canadian writing.”
—Marjorie Anderson
“McKay is clearly a talented writer with a subtle sense of story, one that readers will look forward to hearing from, again and again.”
—The Gazette
“McKay is such a wonderful storyteller with a strong sense of place and time.”
—Library Journal
—Toronto Star
“Finely crafted and remarkably researched. . . . A unique achievement. . . . While set in the past, the book informs the modern dialogue on feminism, the sex trade, and choice.”
—Stacey May Fowles, The Walrus
“A worthy follow up to . . . The Birth House. . . . Character, setting, mood and plot are melded naturally to create a Dickensian world of deprivation and determination.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“A powerful novel, rooted in the same elements that made The Birth House both critically lauded and a bestseller. . . . One of McKay’s gifts and skills as a writer is her ability to utterly immerse the reader in her fictional world. . . . Affecting."
—Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
“Fans of McKay’s bestselling novel The Birth House are going to love The Virgin Cure. . . . McKay’s vivid prose can trigger in readers the taste of a hot bowl of oyster stew, the reek of Chrystie Street tenement houses and the sound of a taffeta skirt’s hem brushing the floor of a concert saloon. . . . It’s difficult not to swiftly turn the pages of The Virgin Cure.”
—Maclean’s
“A lovely novel, written in a style that is both clean and subtle. McKay’s voices are true; her characters sympathetic. . . . I’m certain readers will take to The Virgin Cure just as they did The Birth House.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“A powerful new voice in Canadian writing.”
—Marjorie Anderson
“McKay is clearly a talented writer with a subtle sense of story, one that readers will look forward to hearing from, again and again.”
—The Gazette
“McKay is such a wonderful storyteller with a strong sense of place and time.”
—Library Journal
I did not love the book as much as I did the Birth House, that being said I did enjoy it. the author does such an amazing job describing the way of life for the time periods in her books. I am looking forward to The Witches of New York.
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