Pinkerton's Sister

Peter Rushforth

ISBN 10: 0156031868 / ISBN 13: 9780156031868

Published by Mariner Books, 2006

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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Harvest Books Pub Date: 5/1/2006 Binding: Paperback Pages: 752 Reprint edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pinkerton's Sister
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156031868
• ISBN 13: 9780156031868
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Trapped in a suffocating life of convention and party chatter, Alice Pinkerton has turned to the liberating worlds she finds in literature. Like a character from one of her favorite novels, Alice holds a biting, eccentric, but expansive view of life; she wears only white, has a stutter, and knows her peers call her a madwoman in the attic. Various period cures-hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, electrotherapy, a sanitarium-fail to turn this thirty-two-year-old, highly imaginative, caustically funny woman into one of the silly damsels of 1903's New York Society. Hauntingly, beneath all this lies a dark family secret.

Pinkerton's Sister is a novel for readers, who will thrill to recognize a kindred in Alice's references to our most beloved literary characters: Jo March, Jane Eyre, Leo Bloom, and Hester Prynne, among many others, grace these pages. This intertextual, playful work certainly qualifies as "the ultimate book-geek's guilty pleasure" (Creative Loafing Atlanta).

About the Author

PETER RUSHFORTH is the author of Kindergarten. A former schoolteacher, he lives in North Yorkshire, England.