Fanny: A Fiction: A Fiction

by Edmund White

2021-01-09 01:29:36

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 Fan... Read more

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 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes'' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope''s life.

Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.

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Book Details

File size8 X 5.31 X 0.9 in
Print pages400
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date October 26, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060004859
Edmund White is an award-winning and prolific writer. His work, which includes the novel Our Young Man and the memoir The Flâneur, has revitalised American literature, breaking down boundaries of cla...

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