Ebook {Epub PDF} Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock

Beyond Measure - Kindle edition by Holdstock, Pauline. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Beyond Measure.  · Beyond Measure ebook By Pauline Holdstock. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library ISBN. Author. Pauline Holdstock. Publisher. Cormorant Books. Release. 15 August Share. Subjects Fiction Historical Fiction. Search for a digital library with this title. Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Learn more about. Pauline Holdstock's novel, Beyond Measure, takes place in Italy in the s, and spirals around the main characters Paolo, Orazio, his daughter and assistant Sofonisba, Ceccio the land lord, Matteo Tassi, Alessandro and Caterina, the slave girl. Each character has a desire to be appreciated, if not seen/5(6).

"Holdstock, with a few deft strokes, pulls the reader into the tumultuous life of an alluring rabble of characters: painters, sculptors, patrons, fools, and slaves In Beyond Measure, she proves herself a master of pacing. Her lively, macabre plot trips lightly along in spite of its dark elements.". Holdstock is an intentionally published novelist, short fiction writer, and essayist. Her work has been shortlisted for many awards, and her historical novel Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books, ) was the winner of the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Award for Fiction. She lives near Victoria. The first six titles available are Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock, Born With a Tooth by Joseph Boyden, Home Schooling by Carol Windley, Pure Inventions by James King, The Frankenstein Murders by Kathlyn Bradshaw, and The Worlds Within Her by Neil Bissoondath. Check out our ebook page here.

“In Beyond Measure, Holdstock has created a fascinating portrayal of a society obsessed with surfaces, which sees the creation of beauty as ample justification for torture, mutilation, and murder.” — Books in Canada. Pauline Holdstock is the author of seven novels, including Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Giller Prize, Beyond Measure, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, as well as The Hunter and the Wild Girl. She lives on Vancouver Island and in the Languedoc region of France. From Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock © Published by Cormorant Books. Comments. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission.