Alexander Chee. (2016). The Queen of the Night. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Alexander Chee. 2016. The Queen of the Night. Blackstone Publishing.

Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night. Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

Alexander Chee. The Queen of the Night. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

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     ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as "the fire, in my opinion, and the light," comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.

As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. To survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress' maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.

Featuring a cast of characters drawn from history, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she moves closer to the truth behind the mysterious opera and the role that could secure her reputation—or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.

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     October 26, 2015
     Chee’s lush and sweeping second novel uses a strikingly different setting from Edinburgh, his accomplished debut, but shares its musical themes and boldness. In 1882 Paris, the soprano known as Lilliet Berne is a celebrated opera star with an unforgettable but vulnerable voice. When a stranger offers her the chance to originate a new opera’s leading role, she discovers that the work retells her scandalous hidden history. As she attempts to discover which of four individuals from her past revealed her secrets, she recalls the circus troupe in which she first performed, her days as a servant to France’s Empress Eugénie, and her time as a prostitute. Chee memorably depicts the shifting fortunes of France and historical figures including Napoleon III—whose wife, Eugénie, and her rival, the Countess di Castiglione, play pivotal roles in Lilliet’s story—and George Sand. But opera as much as history shapes the novel, with nods to The Magic Flute among other works. Though the momentum flags in the book’s lengthy central sections, Chee’s voice, at once dreamy and dramatic, never falters; Lilliet’s cycle of reinventions is a moving meditation on the transformative power of fate, art, time, and sheer survival. Agent: Jin Auh, Wylie Agency.

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     April 15, 2016
     

     Chee's (Edinburgh) latest is a well-researched fictional look at the world of opera in 19th-century Europe. The story is about Lilliet Berne, a celebrated opera singer with a dark and secret past that is soon to be revealed. Via flashbacks listeners learns of Lilliet's early life in Minnesota, her journey to Europe, and the various previous careers and chapters of her life. Though the characters are not especially sympathetic, the book pays great attention to detail within an intricate plot. Classically trained opera singer and narrator Lisa Flanagan brings the story to vivid life. VERDICT Will be of interest to fans of opera and historical fiction. ["A completely engrossing work that should appeal to the widest range of readers, especially those with a taste for historical fiction": LJ 1/16 starred review of the Houghton Harcourt hc.]--Denise Garafalo, Mount Saint Mary Coll. Lib., Newburgh, NY

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.

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