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A tale based on the life of the reclusive classic author follows her precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her interactions with the men in her life, in a story told from the perspective of her younger sister, Lavinia.
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About the Author
Paola Kaufmann was born in 1969 in Rio Negro, Argentina. She combined fiction-writing with a successful career as a biologist and scientific researcher. She received the Casa de las Am éricas Prize for The Sister. Her last novel, The Lake, won the Planeta Prize for fiction. After a long battle with cancer she died in 2006 at the age of 37.
From Publishers Weekly
This engaging novel from Argentinian Kaufmann (1969–2006) traces the life and times of the Belle of Amherst through the eyes of her mostly forgotten younger sister, Lavinia Dickinson, or Vinnie. It opens with Vinnie contemplating the 10-year anniversary of her sister's death, then leads us into a reminiscence of the unusual childhoods of the three Dickinson children (including the eldest, brother Austin), marked by the rigidities and detachment of both parents. As for the agoraphobia and eccentricities that marked Dickinson's later years, including her insistence on wearing only white clothes and refusing to see anyone outside of family or close friends, Kaufmann's Vinnie suggests that some of Dickinson's oddities may have been purposely adopted. The final third is devoted to an examination of Vinnie's legal entanglements with her brother's mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd, who famously co-edited the first collection of the poems. Although Kaufmann's prose does not rise to the magnificence of Dickinson's poetry—what could?—she writes lovingly about the poetry itself, describing the poems as wild children raised in a wild garden. Her book is a must-read for Dickinson fans, exploring the motives and secret desires of one of our most mysterious literary artists.
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- PublisherOverlook/Rookery
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1585679518
- ISBN 13 9781585679515
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages280
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