'Little' Considers Power, Personhood, And Wax Artistry
Edward Carey's new novel is about the life of wax museum pioneer Madame Tussaud — but it's also about the French Revolution, about humans, bodies, art and loneliness, and it's deeply, painfully sad.
I prefer to read books without knowing anything about them. In the case of Little, I didn't need to know anything besides the fact that Edward Carey wrote it; I've loved and reviewed every volume in his Iremonger trilogy, a series in which people are in constant danger of turning into things, used and traded and thrown away, but sometimes prone to revolution.
In — a project fifteen years in the making, that
