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Title: |
A Sunless Heart |
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| By (author): |
Edith Johnstone Edited by: Constance D. Harsh |
| ISBN10-13: |
155111741X : 9781551117416 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
246 |
| Weight: |
.335 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - June 2008 |
| List Price: |
32.95 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| In A Sunless Heart, Edith Johnstone establishes a feverish atmosphere for her novelâ s story of emotional and physical hardship and the power of bonds between women. Its first third focuses on Gasparine Oâ Neill, who shares an intense connection with her sickly twin brother, Gaspar. Living in poverty, the two struggle to live decently until Gaspar dies. Here gritty naturalism gives way to fantasy, as Gasparine is rescued from despair by the brilliant Lotus Grace, a much-admired teacher at the local Ladiesâ College. Sexually exploited from the age of twelve by her sisterâ s fiancé, Lotus cannot love anyone, not even her illegitimate child. Gasparine devotes herself to Lotus, but Lotus finds her final brief happiness with a woman student, Mona Lefcadio, a passionate Trinidadian heiress. Exploring issues of race, sexuality, and class in compelling prose, A Sunless Heart is a startling re-discovery from the late-Victorian era. The appendices to this Broadview edition provide contemporary documents that illuminate the tension between romantic friendship and lesbian consciousness in the novel and address other debates in which the novel participates: the nature of Creole identity, the education of women, and the dangers of childhood sexual exploitation. |
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