He would quote things that she had said that I thought were insightful and intelligent, but that he would say were evidence of her featherbrained nature.
"As I read it, I found myself having a dialogue with the author. Staying at a bed-and-breakfast in Darien, Ga., she found a shelf full of books about women, including Stefan Zweig's 1930s biography of the queen, "Marie Antoinette: Portrait of an Average Woman." Naslund's childhood interest in Marie Antoinette was re-piqued after she completed "Ahab's Wife" and was thinking of future book projects.
Naslund, who lives in Louisville, Ky., is the author of the best-selling novels "Ahab's Wife" and "Four Spirits," and is one of the headline authors at the Sarasota Reading Festival, to be held Nov. "To me that was very frightening, that a person of such privilege could be brought so low as to lose her head by the guillotine," said the author, whose next novel, "Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette," will be published this fall by William Morrow. (Marie Antoinette) was born to the role of being a princess, but then she lost her position and her power and her prestige." Not to mention her head. "In a fairy tale, there's a person who works hard, who's neglected and who becomes a princess. "Her story was like a reverse fairy tale to me," said Naslund. Eighteenth-century French queen Marie Antoinette has fascinated author Sena Jeter Naslund since childhood.
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