![]() ![]() He discards all his previous models and concentrates on the blonde waif, transforming her into all kinds of figures from a beggar maid to the sleeping beauty. ![]() The narrative is told in a series of first person chapters ranging from that of Henry Paul Chester, through his child bride Effie Chester, Effie's seducer Moses Harper and Fanny Miller, madam and mother of the dead Marta, the darker sister to Effie's pale spiritual sibling.Īrtist Henry Chester explains how he happens upon the ten-year-old Effie and becomes obsessed with her. In a foreword, the author explains just why she thought to revive the cooling body of the old manuscript, tweaking it here and there for a new audience, one accustomed to more joyous fare from this writer. What a story-teller is Joanne Harris! The famed author of CHOCOLAT resurrects (appropriately) a Gothic tale originally released in 1994. ![]()
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