Tess - Softcover
213 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
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This is the story of Tess – of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and of the woman who became the incarnation of his most famous fictional creation, the beautiful actress Gertrude Bugler, herself the daughter of the model for the original Tess and the recipient of Hardy's amorous advances.
It's the story, too, of all the 'foredames', as Hardy named them, of his Tess; the story of women seen and imagined by men, and the terrible consequences of the incarnation of such a vision; a story of love, betrayal, and revenge.
Emma Tennant has weaved her own spell, with her tale of a contemporary Tess, and a murder that must be solved... a tale of Tess the temptress, of Liza-Lu, her little sister, the watcher, of Alec the childhood friend whose games are less innocent than mothers and fathers would care to imagine; a story of Dorset beaches and sun-baked summers; of a dream attained and of deaths of violence long foretold.
'The effect is dazzling, like looking into a kaleidoscope'
INDEPENDENT
'Emma Tennant's richly imaginative exploration of the creative process is compelling'
LITERARY REVIEW
'Tennant gets her teeth into Hardy. For her dissection of this monster alone, the book is worth reading. But the fictional story of her Tess develops a strength of its own'
DAILY MAIL
'The tale is spiced with maternal madness, attempted suicides and a dark family secret. Vivid and effective'
EVENING STANDARD
This is the story of Thomas Hardy's Tess, and of the woman who became the incarnation of his fictional creation, the actress Gertrude Bugler, who was the daughter of the model for the original Tess and the recipient of Hardy's amorous advances. It is the story of women seen and imagined by men.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 000654682X
- ISBN 13 9780006546825
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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