{"product_id":"the-unruly-passions-of-eugnie-r-isbn-9780547840215","title":"The Unruly Passions Of Eugénie R.","description":"A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003eEditors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman follows the man she loves to Paris and finds, amid the wildness of Second Empire luxury and treachery, many loves to win and lose. She must also find a way to a life she can truly call her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman . . . [and] an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence.”—Deborah Harkness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Epic times make for epic books . . . Wonderful, suspenseful reading.”—Karen Joy Fowler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eugénie R. is every girl in a daguerreotype looking over her shoulder, every woman with a baby hurrying away from you down a gas-lit street, and then too, she is the first of her kind, a woman who stands at her own barricades and fights a France determined to render her silent. I lost myself whole-heartedly in her story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home.\"—Sarah Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fiction in the grand tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy.”—Howard Frank Mosher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lord! How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover.\"—Dorothy Allison\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugénie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home.\" —Sarah Blake, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Postmistress\u003c\/i\u003e  \"A sweeping, fascinating epic full of drama and beauty.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eThe Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a personal meditation on women’s emotional and professional tradeoffs as it is a sweeping saga of the decadent Paris that spawned \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e. … Don’t read this fiercely intelligent novel if you simply want a good love story dressed up in period clothes. Read it for the complex sexual politics, lush language, and mirror onto our own excessive, heedless times.\"—Sheri Holman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dress Lodger \u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.\u003c\/i\u003e is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence.\" — Deborah Harkness, author of \u003ci\u003eA Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e  \"Epic times make for epic books. \u003ci\u003eThe Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.\u003c\/i\u003e is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory.\" — Karen Joy Fowler, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e  \"Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among.\" —Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Women Don’t Get Fat\u003c\/i\u003e  \"Reading \u003ci\u003eThe Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.\u003c\/i\u003e is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all.\" —Lauren Belfer, author of \u003ci\u003eA Fierce Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e  \"So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugénie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugénie R., Madame B. wouldn’t have had to take that arsenic.\" — Valerie Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Confessions of Edward Day\u003c\/i\u003e  \"Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page.\" — Dorothy Allison, author of \u003ci\u003eBastard Out Of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e  \"A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative.\" — Fay Weldon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890164429029,"sku":"NP9780547840215","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547840215.jpg?v=1730232668","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-unruly-passions-of-eugnie-r-isbn-9780547840215","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}