While spying on his sickly wife's maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father's perfume business. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy. In 1993 he, his second wife and family emigrated to Scotland, where they still reside.Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. He worked as a cleaner and at various other casual jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney. He attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, philosophy, rhetoric, English language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English literature. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967. In 1993 he, his second wife and family emigrated to Scotland, where they still Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch writer of English-language fiction.įaber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. Faber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch writer of English-language fiction.
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