Carole DeSanti
Carole DeSanti is a longtime acquisitions editor at The Penguin Group. Notable titles on her list include Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison; The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing by Melissa Bank; Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl; the novels of Terry McMillan and Tracy Chevalier, and Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber. She has been profiled in Poets & Writers' Magazine, and in 2009 received the Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award. Her essay The Haunted Room, about the working conditions for women writers, appeared in the Women's Review of Books.
News
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., the debut novel by Carole DeSanti, which chronicles the loves, losses, and awakening of consciousness of a 19th century woman in France during the Second Empire, the era when absinthe-fueled prosperity collapsed into the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Paris.
Acquiring editor Adrienne Brodeur describes the book as a tour de force, a novel that begins as an archetypal coming of age story, but expands into a dramatic exploration of friendship, prostitution, war, and the contrary requirements of a woman's survival.
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