A Bigamist's Daughter
by Alice McDermott
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Author: Alice McDermottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-12
ISBN: 0385333293
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: Myth, Reality, Illusion -- The World of Love and Literature
Summary: 5 Stars
In a novel that dissects, deconstructs and recreates the fabric of life, love and literature, the author spotlights the world of publishing; the mythology of love, the elusiveness of the love object - all as the centerpiece of this work - formulate the basis for this story.
We begin with Elizabeth Connelly, a single woman living in New York - some time in the twentieth century, before computers or the current Internet generation - and discover her real life as an "editor-in-chief" at what is known in that day as a "vanity press." She meets her potential authors, praises their work - even when it is less than stellar - and signs them to contracts. They pay their fee and dream their dreams.
But one day she meets an author - Tupper Daniels, a southern gentleman - and in helping him "create an ending" for his unfinished manuscript, she stumbles down a path of exploration that leads her into the surreal world of elusive fathers - traveling fathers like her own - who are leading secret lives. Questioning all the stories told her by her mother, and examining her own tendency to tell tales - even create myths - about her own past loves, she begins to understand that fantasies, illusions and love myths have a life of their own, flourishing because of the necessity to preserve those very myths.
Fascinating portrayal of love, literature, and the elusive nature of dreams, A Bigamist's Daughter is a memorable novel that earns five stars.
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Summary of A Bigamist's Daughter
Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor?s, but isn?t quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world?of real struggles, passion, pain, and love?spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber?by a man?s real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all?in Alice McDermott?s luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.United States Books
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