Pinkerton's sister

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Label

Pinkerton's sister

Statement of responsibility

Peter Rushforth

Creator

• Rushforth, Peter, 1945-2005

Subject

• Young women -- Fiction
• Mental illness -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Psychological fiction

Language

eng

Summary

A sprawling stream-of-conscious novel set primarily in the head of Alice Pinkerton at the dawn of the twentieth century. Alice isn't yet ready for the new age; she's a vestige of Victorian times, a "madwoman" living on the third floor (not in the attic, she insists) of her family's home. "No one was as close to her as words on a page," Alice muses, and indeed, she relates more to characters from the novels of George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Reade than to the people who surround her, especially the thoroughly modern socialite Mrs. Albert Comstock, who represents everything Alice hates. Alice's doctor, who seeks to cure her of her "malady," proclaims, "Imagination is an impediment to progress." For Alice, there's no more chilling sentiment

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6068.U76

LC item number

P56 2005

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries