The Dark Sister

By Rebecca Goldstein

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670835560
• ISBN13: 9780670835560
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

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I can't believe that there are no reviews of this novel! Rebecca Goldstein is a fascinating writer: to jump from novel writing to a probing study of Kurt Gödel is not what one expects. This novel is a quantum jump (ahem) from her first two, which are (good) academic tales. It is not an easy, linear read (as she says, she presumes a lot from her readers), but extremely evocative, picking up on themes from the earliers ones. If you don't mind being challenged (if you like Iris Murdoch, for example), give it a try. Can't wait to read the later ones.