Pinkerton's Sister
by Rushforth, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1931561990
- ISBN 13
- 9781931561990
- Seller
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Walnut Creek, California, United States
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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).
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- Bookseller
- Mad Myrtle's Book Haven (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06092023
- Title
- Pinkerton's Sister
- Author
- Rushforth, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1931561990
- ISBN 13
- 9781931561990
- Publisher
- McAdam/Cage Publishing
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novel;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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