Pinkerton's Sister

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Scribener
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 729 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Alice Is Almost Thirty Five, Not Mad Exactly, But Disturbed, Foolish, Not Right In The Head. Twenty Five Years In The Writing, Heartbreakingly Funny, Fiercely Intelligent, This Is An Extraordinary Work Of Imagination About Imagination, A Celebration Of The Power Of Fiction And Its Ultimate Redeeming Quality. It Is A Dazzling, Mesmerising Achievement.

Publishers Description: It's turn-of-the-century New York, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the mercantile class. But in the Pinkerton household a nineteenth-century embarrassment remains. Alice Pinkerton. Alice isn't mad exactly, but she's not sane either. She is tolerated, free to wander about, free to accompany her family to tea parties - free to be treated like a simpleton. But in truth Alice's mind is razor sharp, honed by a restless imagination, years of reading and a profound contempt for her surroundings. Left alone to read, to think, she has devoured the world that brings her mind alive: Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, Whitman, Poe, they are her inspiration; Jane Eyre, Catherine Moreland, Desdemona her companions. As she moves through the witless world around her, observing its prejudices, its shallow culture and its vanity, it is society that prompts her observations, viewing all through the prism of the art that has sustained and nourished her lonely life.

ISBN: 9780743252362