Fanny: A Fiction - Hardcover
CODE: 5100704
Description
The highly anticipated book from Edmund White - a brilliant novel based on the life of Fanny Wright - Scottish gentlewoman, early abolitionist, plantation owner, and newspaper publisher.
In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet - the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820's when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideas. Before long, Wright has convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.
The biography soon degrades into a settling of scores and digressions on the misadventures of Mrs. Trollope's own family. By turns noble and pretty, comic and tragic, it introduces us to literary lions, battling political theorists, gamblers and escaped slaves, and even the aging General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. With hallucinatory realism, Mrs. Trollope paints French chateaux, Belgian fogs, Mississippi mud, and the gaudy splendors and cruelties of Haiti. And throughout this sparkling narrative, we find love in all its forms - in the family, between races and generations, and within the same sex.
Edmund White
Product Details
Bargain Book Description
This book is what we class as a Bargain Book. Sometimes book publishers print too many copies, in other cases bookstores purchased too many copies and have returned them to the publisher. Bargain Books therefore may have been handled a few times but are still in excellent condition and available at substantial savings over the published list price.
The publisher may place a mark on the edge of the book to identify it as a Bargain Book. This ensures the book will never get returned to the publisher for credit. In most cases the mark is a small line or dot, however sometimes it is large. We do not sell books with excessive marking through our web site.
Since the publisher marks each book by hand and often not in the same location, we are unable to provide information on specific markings on each title. Below are two examples (circled in white) of typical publisher marks that may appear on our Bargain Books.
 |
 |
Tell a Friend
Categories
For best operation with our website, we recommend the following browser programs:
|
|
|
