Holy Fools

by Joanne Harris

  “Holy Fools is a fantastic reading experience…. An adventure story, ripe with vivid characters, colorful performances, and seedy undercurrents…. Joanne Harris is a sensual writer with a keen historical perspective…. Like a deft acrobat, Harris dances and tumbles from one juicy description and cutting narration to the next, all the while building toward the dramatic climax.”

  —Chicago Sun-Times

  “Harris’s robust humor and whimsical fantasy suits this take of seventeenth-century France.”

  —Juice

  “Harris does a creditable job re-creating the atmosphere of a very distant time and place, and infuses it with a sharp…tale.”

  —Kirkus Reviews

  ALSO BY JOANNE HARRIS

  Coastliners

  Five Quarters of the Orange

  Blackberry Wine

  Chocolat

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  HOLY FOOLS. Copyright © 2004 by Frogspawn, Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © JULY 2007 ISBN: 9780061865879

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