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The Dress Lodger (), Sheri Holman's historical novel takes place during the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution amid the cholera outbreak of Set in Sunderland, England, a riverside city quarantined by the epidemic, fifteen-year-old Gustine, street smart and defiant, works as a potter's assistant by day and a prostitute by night. The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. If Clive Barker ever writes a historical novel, he'll be hard pressed to invent horrors more lurid than the rotting corpses and dangling viscera that grace, so to speak, this lurid and fascinating second novel from Holman (A Stolen Tongue, ). Teenaged Gustine (the —dress lodger—), a prostitute whose "master" garbs her in finery in order to attract the lust of well-paying gentry.
"The Dress Lodger" by Sheri Holman A lurid and literary novel offers a tale of prostitution, cholera and body snatching in 19th century England. The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into bestsellerdom. With over , copies sold and a consistent top “Reader’s Circle” performer for Ballantine, it was superbly reviewed, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Sheri Holman grew up in rural Virginia and now lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of The Dress Lodger, a national bestseller nominated for an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Mammoth Cheese.
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