The Dark Sister (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Goldstein, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140172475 ISBN 13: 9780140172478

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

Hedda, a writer of angry feminist novels, has fled New York City to write in solitude in an old house on the coast of Maine. Her only interruptions come in unwelcome phone calls from her self-absorbed and many-times divorced sister Stella, describing the sessions with her psychoanalyst. Between the sisters there is anger and disdain, but there are also childhood traumas and secrets that inexorably link them. And within the sisters’ story is Hedda’s own novel in progress: a tale of two Victorian sisters, both spinsters, and both verging on madness. With the themes of passion and intellect, overlapping stories and unsettling dualities, The Dark Sister is a compelling blend of philosophy and dark humor, from one of today’s most provocative novelists.
 
“Clever, observant and nimble. . . . One has the sense of reading a writer who has just discovered the full possibilities of her talent.”—The New York Times
 
“A successful blend of metaphysical suspense and satirical comment.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“The Dark Sister is brilliantly ingenious, beautifully written, and thoroughly alarming.”—Iris Murdoch

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Review:

"Goldstein has cleverly constructed a highly imaginative tale."--"Publisher's Weekly"
"Immensely ambitious . . . Teems with ideas and provocative suggestions."--"The Washington Post"
"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"

"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""

"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

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

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

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"Rich historical/psychological thriller . . . Successful blend of metaphysical suspense and satirical comment." Chicago Tribune"

About the Author:

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza. Her most recent work, Plato at the Googleplex, was released by Pantheon Books in March of 2014. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts.Rebecca Goldstein is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau (prhspeakers.com).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140172475
• ISBN 13: 9780140172478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288