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Nelly, an amnesia victim, finds herself in a strange town with a suitcase full of money and no idea whether she is an agent, a criminal, or a victim
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Eva Figes is the author of several novels, including The Seven Ages, Ghosts, and The Tenancy. Her nonfiction includes Patriarchal Attitudes, Little Eden: A Child at War, and Sex and Subterfuge.
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A woman gloats over the false name she inscribes in the hotel register as she checks into the Black Swan. The appellation is "Nelly Dean." Intriguingly, this is the name of the housekeeper in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights , so the reader can expect uncanny happenings and is not disappointed. The problem with "Nelly" is that she has no recollection of who she really is or how she got to this place, though she recounts with brilliantly convincing lucidity the events of each day of her sojourn. She feels happy at the Black Swan, yet each of her forays into the village is followed by some crime: an old woman is brutally beaten; a house is torched; a bank is robbed. Nelly seems blissfully unconcerned. Visitors arrive. One claims to be her son; a portly man tries, impotently, to make love to her. Although she recognizes no one, Nelly is haunted by a sense of deja vu (such as reading bits of her own life in a library book). Mirrors disconcert her; the elderly, puffy-faced woman who glares from inside the wardrobe door, and again from the hairdresser's mirror, must be, she feels, somebody else. Finally, she shrouds her looking glass with an old robe. A British import, this is a pleasingly eerie study in amnesiac derangement by the author of The Seven Ages.
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0436156016
- ISBN 13 9780436156014
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages218
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 218 Pp. Red Boards, Spine Lettered In Black. First Edition Indicated. Red Boards Lettered In Black. First Printing Indicated. Book Fine. Dust Jacket Priced L3.90 Net, Outer Panels Fine But Front Flap With Foxing, Crease, And Wear Along Top Edge, All Apparently Due To Contact With A Large Article About Figes, From The Observer, 11 June 1978, And A Later Letter To The Editor Questioning Figes Complaints About Her Reception In England. Very Slight Foxing To Rear Flap. Eva Figes (1932 ? 2012) Was An English Author And Feminist Who Wrote Novels, Literary Criticism, Studies Of Feminism, And Vivid Memoirs Relating To Her Berlin Childhood And Later Experiences As A Jewish Refugee From Hitler's Germany. Born Eva Unger In Berlin In 1932 To An Affluent, Secular Jewish Family, She Arrived In Britain As A Refugee In 1939. During Kristallnacht In November 1938, Her Father Emil Was Arrested And Sent To Dachau Concentration Camp. He Was Later Released After His Wife Offered The Nazis A Large Bribe, And He Managed To Escape To England To Join His Family In London. All Of Figes's Grandparents On Both Sides Of The Family Died In Concentration Camps. She Met The German Author Günter Grass In London And The Two Had A Short Romantic Affair That Turned Into A Lifelong Friendship. In The 1960S, She Was Associated With An Informal Group Of Experimental British Writers Influenced By Rayner Heppenstall That Included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin, Alan Burns, And Its Informal Leader, B. S. Johnson. Unger Worked In Publishing Until 1967, When She Became A Full-Time Writer. Figes's Best Known Work Is Patriarchal Attitudes, A Feminist Polemic Written In 1970, Published One Month Before Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The Book Argued That Nurture Rather Than Nature Has Shaped All Secondary Sex Characteristics And Considered Why Prominent Female Figures Of The Nineteenth Century Were Ambivalent Or Hostile Towards The Feminist Movement. Figes' Novel, Light (1983), Is An Impressionistic Portrait Of A Single Day In The Life Of Claude Monet From Sunrise To Sunset. Figes Won The Guardian Fiction Prize For Winter Journey In 1967. Seller Inventory # 049957
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