A Curious Invitation
The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature
$31.22
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2014
Summary
Since ancient times, human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that, writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out, or even get murdered.
A Curious Invitation features forty of the greatest fictional festivities. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Ric…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447228967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447228960 |
| Author: | Suzette Field |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | Main market ed. |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Suzette Field
Suzette Field was born in 1978 in Los Angeles. In 1996 she moved to London where she set up a cinema in a converted warehouse and renovated a five-storey Georgian building in Shoreditch. Since 2000 she has produced parties under the auspices of The Modern Times Club, The Last Tuesday Society and latterly A Curious Invitation. Her legendary masked balls now regularly attract up to 3,000 revellers. She also curates literary salons with the National Trust and organizes taxidermy workshops. She lives in Muswell Hill, North London, and has two children.
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