The Force of Such Beauty
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"Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat and a rope of diamonds leashing her to a balcony, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave, and produce children with perfect grace. But once she begins to open her eyes to the world around her--and examine her own reflection--Caroline discovers that she may have entered a bargain that cannot be undone. Barbara Bourland stunning third novel is her most ambitious and most imaginative book to date. Inspired by accounts of real-life princesses who yearned to escape, and set in a grotesque and gaudy prerecession 2000s Europe, The Force of Such Beauty is a heart-wrenching and compulsively readable testament to the way in which real-life power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women bodies."-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
[New York] : Dutton, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780593329344
0593329341
SUBJECTS
High school dropouts -- Fiction.
Princesses -- Fiction.
Women's rights -- Fiction.
Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 2001-2010 -- Fiction.