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# The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories Paperback – April 7, 2011

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    More petals, crimson and white
  

*by B***B on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019*

I’m one reader that found Michel Faber’s ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ to be a stupendous achievement. It is a novel that Charles Dickens would never dare to write even if the moral standards of his time had been looser although he would have brushed against much of the subject matter. It contains a Dickensian breadth of humanity from several walks of Victorian life including several quite memorable characters. Many people have criticized the open-endedness of its conclusion. I was perfectly fine with the ending, which I felt did impose an obvious break in the story. When a couple of characters get on a boat to travel to another continent, that is an enforced ending, concluding the business they had with other characters through geographical separation. However, other readers wanted more closure. Faber has given his readers not more closure but more strands of narrative from some of the ‘Crimson Petal’ characters.What we have are mostly very brief stories that have the sense of ending before they’ve barely gotten started. The narratives feel uniformly insubstantial to me, although they do reintroduce me to some of the familiar characters. The most interesting character from ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ was Sugar, the literate, and literary, prostitute, an intelligent, independent woman who has come to terms with the reality of her circumstances and has the wits and the emotional maturity to deal with what’s in front of her until something better comes along, which she fully intends to manifest.The first story in the collection, “Christmas in Silver Street”, begins with the same tour guide narrator that led our way through ‘Crimson Petal’, zooming into December of 1872. We are with Sugar in her domain on Silver Street and the streets look like a Dickensian Christmas:“Snow makes everyone and everything look equal, as if God has lovingly applied a thin layer of white icing to rooftops, street-stalls, carriages, and the heads of beggars. Suffering and decrepitude are scarcely recognisable under such a pretty disguise.”Even the sentiment sounds like something Dickens would have written. Sugar is inspecting her tongue in her bedroom in Mrs. Castaway’s brothel and there’s no sign of any festive decoration anywhere in the house. The wash-boy Christopher comes for Sugar’s sheets and, when Sugar reminds him that it’s Christmas, says he doesn’t know what it is. The sound of carolers can be heard down the street. Much like the boy sent by Scrooge to get a roasting hen, Sugar goes in search of hot food. She brings back a cooked chicken to share with Christopher. She also bought some chocolate but ate it all on the way home. Sugar provides some festivity for the boy like he’s never had, then gets ready for the busy night ahead.“Clara and the Rat Man” is a strange little story of Clara, one of Sugar’s co-workers, and a repulsive client with a perverse request of her at a dog and rat pit. By the story’s end, Clara feels more pity than revulsion for the man.In “Chocolate Hearts from the New World” Emmeline Fox, the pious missionary from ‘Crimson Petal’, sends letters to slave-holders in the American South beseeching them to follow their Christian consciences and set free their slaves. Most of the replies she receives are hostile, telling her to mind her own business in so many words but in one she receives a box of chocolates from a man who admires her “most elegant handwriting”.In “The Apple”, Sugar’s reading of Anthony Trollope is interrupted by the exhortations of do-gooders outside her window and then sees one of them slap her daughter for dropping an apple to the ground. Forgetful of everything else, Sugar springs to action and runs out to the street barefoot to jump to the defense of the mistreated child but loses sight of them.Sugar’s selfish perfume manufacturer, William Rackham, in “Medicine”, still broods bitterly over what he feels Sugar did to him. He’s running a fever so the tenor of his thoughts is influenced by his physical state. Fifteen years later he is remarried but still laments over the death of his sickly wife and the loss of his daughter Sophie. He is just as clueless and oblivious as he was when he knew Sugar.The final story, “A Mighty Horde of Women in Very Big Hats, Advancing”, is the longest story with the longest title. It is told by the young son of Sophie, now a suffragette  returned from Australia to parade the streets of London, living a bohemian life with her artist husband and her female companion/fellow radical. We hear bits and pieces of Sophie’s life being raised by the shadowy figure Sugar, absorbed in distorted fragments by a seven-year-old boy. This has the least connection to ‘Crimson Petal’ of any of these stories. Sophie was a young child in that novel and had not evolved into a willful agent capable of affecting her life and so the Sophie of this story resembles that character in name only. This is the least successful of any of these stories partly because it occupies a different world in a later era and the characters are not particularly interesting.All of these stories, even the last, have the same flowing, effortless style that propelled the pace of their parent novel. That novel provides this volume a reason to exist. Taken on its own merits I would not be substantially interested or affected. I hesitate to give a three-star rating to a collection of stories that are so well-written—it more properly deserves three and a half stars. However, they don’t carry substantial literary weight to be considered more highly, based on their own merits. I would direct anyone considering reading this collection to seek out instead, if they haven’t already, ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great story, frustrating ending
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015*

I'll admit it, I picked up this book hoping for some closure after the abrupt ending of the book. These stories were as well written and rich as the book, and it did tell a few stories about what happened to the characters, but it left off with an ending as abrupt and frustrating as the book. Much as I enjoy reading these stories, I won't be picking up any more of this author's work because I'm tired of these non-endings. I like the stories I read to have more closure than this.It is very well done and beautifully written, so if you don't mind the ambiguity you should enjoy these stories. They touched a bit more on the early feminist movement and the strict morals of the past. The characters are rich and compelling. I love the amount of historical detail given.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great complement to the first book
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022*

This is a great read, and adds a lot to the “crimson” book. Short stories about the main characters, which provide with more information on what happened to them. Faber is a great writer and you’ll feel transported to a bygone era in England.

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