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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780810970526 ISBN: 081097052X Label: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: September 01, 2006 Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Studio: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Sales Rank: 85513 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The author of the New York Times bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife returns with another evocative “novel in pictures,” the much-anticipated follow-up to 2005’s The Three Incestuous Sisters. The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemist’s daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffenegger’s spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings. With a stunning and distinctive visual style reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey, this gothic romance packs the emotional heft of the world’s great fairy tales. It will delight fans of the author’s previous works and enchant an entirely new legion of readers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Another Gorgeous PublicationAnother gorgeous publication. I just wish the author would follow up with another wonderful story like Time Traveler's Wife. Something I can really sink my mind into. Rating:  - I love it - I thinkNiffenegger appears to be publishing her work in reverse order - this offering includes ideas developed from her art-school sketchbooks. Maybe this author's "Time Traveler's Wife" was more autobiographical than she's letting on. It's not another "Wife," though. It more closely resembles her "Three Incestuous Sisters." Like the "Sisters," it's a Gorey-esque series of images, one per two-page spread, with just a few words on the facing page. And, even more than the "Sisters," it baffles ... Read More Rating:  - A woman gives birth to a cat...what more could you want from a book?!"The Adventuress" is another one of Audrey Niffenegger's picture novels. This particular book was created during the mid-80's when Niffenegger was a student at The Art Institute of Chicago. The story follows the life of an alchemist's daughter who is kidnapped by an evil, salacious baron. She kills the baron and is imprisoned, but she manages to escape by turning into a moth and flying into Napoleon Bonaparte's garden. The two become lovers, and the alchemist's daughter becomes pregnant and gives birth ... Read More Rating:  - Visually appealing, but not great fictionAs others have noted, if you buy this book with the expectation that the story will be even an ounce as compelling as The Time Traveler's Wife, you will be disappointed. I gave this book 2 stars for the quality. As picture novels go, it is given the royal print quality treatment. However, I was underwhelemed by the illustrations and storyline. I know it was written years ago and I like that it was dusted off and resurrected, but it just didn't draw me in. Pardon the pun ;) Rating: - A novel in picturesDon't buy The Adventuress hoping to have the same sense of wonderment and awe that you felt when you finished The Time Traveler's Wife. It isn't that sort of book. The Adventuress is the second of Niffenegger's picture novels (that were mass produced at least. The first being the Three Incestuous Sisters), but it's the first one she wrote. In a footnote at the end of the book, she says it was made between 1983 and 1985 when she was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago. The ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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