The Poisoning Angel

by Jean Teule

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Pub Date 14 Jul 2014 | Archive Date 10 Nov 2015

Gallic Books

General Fiction (Adult) | History

Description

"Unique. Hilariously funny, gruesome, macabre, and graphic, it is a worthy witness to great French modern literature."—Words and Peace

Another real-life character tour de force from Jean Teulé featuring a famous female serial killer from the nineteenth century.

Little Hélène Jégado had always been different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful child grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation. Beginning with the demise of her mother . . .

"Unique. Hilariously funny, gruesome, macabre, and graphic, it is a worthy witness to great French modern literature."—Words and Peace

Another real-life character tour de force from Jean Teulé...

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Advance Praise

Teulé's milieu is centred on the "merriment of vice and cruelty". His novels are bawdy, full of rollicking sex and roiling violence. However, he undercuts this with a graphic humour born of his earlier career as an illustrator ... The result is exceptionally cinematic prose. --Independent on Sunday

Teulé's milieu is centred on the "merriment of vice and cruelty". His novels are bawdy, full of rollicking sex and roiling violence. However, he undercuts this with a graphic humour born of his...