University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-299-19994-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3557.O398D37 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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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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