ABOUT THIS BOOK

If you like the fiction of Henry James, the psychology of his brother William, and have a taste for Gothic mysteries you will enjoy The Dark Sister. The novel is a curious mixture of the Victorian repressiveness about sex, intricate stories within stories, and Jewish humor.

With a new afterword

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Rebecca Goldstein is the author of The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, Strange Attractors, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, and Mazel. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, she is professor of philosophy at Trinity College.

REVIEWS

"Clever, observant and nimble. . . . A wicked satire on feminist fiction. . . . Simultaneously re-examining one of her own favorite themes, first laid out in The Mind-Body Problem, namely, the relationship between reason and passion, the intellect and the hungry soul."—The New York Times

"Immensely ambitious . . . Teems with ideas and provocative suggestions."—The Washington Post

"Goldstein has cleverly constructed a highly imaginative tale."—Publisher's Weekly

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

I
Prologue

II
Hedda

III
Alice

IV
William

V
Vivianna

VI
Stella

VII
Henry

VIII
Mrs. Piper

IX
Catherine

X
The Ancient Jewess

XI
The Nolan

XII
Roderick

XIII
The Princess

XIV
Bernie

XV
Bella

XVI
The Mother

XVII
Voiceless

Dark Afterthoughts to The Dark Sister

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