Synopses & Reviews
If you like the fiction of Henry James, the psychology of his brother William, and have a taste for Gothic mysteries you will enjoy
The Dark Sister. The novel is a curious mixture of the Victorian repressiveness about sex, intricate stories within stories, and Jewish humor.
With a new afterword
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"Clever, observant and nimble. . . . A wicked satire on feminist fiction. . . . Simultaneously re-examining one of her own favorite themes, first laid out in The Mind-Body Problem, namely, the relationship between reason and passion, the intellect and the hungry soul."—The New York Times
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"Immensely ambitious . . . Teems with ideas and provocative suggestions."—The Washington Post
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"Goldstein has cleverly constructed a highly imaginative tale."—Publisher's Weekly
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"Rich historical/psychological thriller . . . Successful blend of metaphysical suspense and satirical comment."—Chicago Tribune
About the Author
Rebecca Goldstein is the author of The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, Strange Attractors, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, and Mazel. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, she is professor of philosophy at Trinity College.