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This is not your grandmas fairy tale Brilliant. The Washington Post
The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick Associated Press
One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Caroline sneaks into her maids car, turns the key, and drives right out of the palace. Alone for the first time in years, she gets on the next flightonly to land in the waiting arms of her guards. As shes forcibly escorted back to her marble prison, something in Caroline breaks for good. Its not her first failed attempt, and it wont be her last. Caroline suspects that shell never escape. But she might find a way to be free.
Barbara Bourlands stunning third novel, a phantasmagorical fable of love and marriage, is her most ambitious and inventive book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses, The Force of Such Beauty is both the story of an idealistic young woman trapped by a corrupt promise, and a deeply moving reminder that power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of womens bodies.
A fascinating novel about bodies, the way we use them, and the way we break them. Its one of several works to come out this year concerned with the appropriation of female beauty by powerful men, and examines a harsh choice in the lives of women dubbed desirable by the patriarchal state: do you participate, or do you say no?Bourland is skilled at finding the noir in the everyday, and illustrating the mechanisms of control that keep us in our Reads, Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Author: Barbara Bourland
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.51w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780593329351
Language: English
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