false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474200m/100967.jpg 100967 14 <p> Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas&#8212;eager to be a good wife and strong queen&#8212;she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate their marriage and in so doing is unable to give what she and the people of France desire most: a child and an heir to the throne. Deeply disappointed and isolated in her own intimate circle, and apart from the social life of the court, she allows herself to remain ignorant of the country's growing economic and political crises, even as poor harvests, bitter winters, war debts, and poverty precipitate rebellion and revenge. The young queen, once beloved by the common folk, becomes a target of scorn, cruelty, and hatred as she, the court's nobles, and the rest of the royal family are caught up in the nightmarish violence of a murderous time called "the Terror." With penetrating insight and with wondrous narrative skill, Sena Jeter Naslund offers an intimate, fresh, heartbreaking, and dramatic reimagining of this truly compelling woman that goes far beyond popular myth&#8212;and she makes a bygone time of tumultuous change as real to us as the one we are living in now. </p> 803345 book 1 10 2006 Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette total:1938|5:349|4:787|3:572|2:167|1:63| 1938 7006 2971 489 2 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 07:06:31 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 07:06:33 -0700 2007
And I don't mean it was a slim volume of delicate prose. It was watery and lacked important detail and missed the ambition of Naslund's "Ahab's Wife."

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The book is told in the first person from Marie Antoinette's point-of-view. I ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 18:46:53 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 28 21:20:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 13:12:08 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 08:19:30 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jun 18 12:05:17 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 12:11:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 13 21:15:43 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 26 14:11:51 -0800 2008
The writing style feels to be very true to t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 17:15:26 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 17:20:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 10:42:45 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 10:45:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Oct 26 11:54:13 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 12:01:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:10:53 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:10:53 -0800 2009 Abundance is another library book, a first-person retelling of the marriage and reign of Marie Antoinette. The queen is portrayed here as a creature of the court who wishes to please her mother and husband; the impetuous creature of Queen of Fashion is hard to spot in these pages. This Marie Antoine...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Apr 10 11:37:23 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 11:41:41 -0700 2009
I’m preparing for a trip to France in the fall and I’ve been thinking about my long-held obsession with the French Court of the 17th and 18th centuries. In my reading, I generally limit my choices to nonfiction—letters or biographies of courtiers, for instance—but o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 20:01:13 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 15:59:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 12:39:28 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 21:46:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun May 20 13:37:10 -0700 2007 Sun May 20 13:39:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 15 11:45:22 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 11:59:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 25 20:08:06 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:58:31 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=100967