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The merciful women / Federico Andahazi ; translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel.
LIBRA - Special PQ7798.1.N342 P5313 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andahazi, Federico, 1963-
- Standardized Title:
- Piadosas. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Polidori, John William, 1795-1821--Fiction.
- Polidori, John William.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Fiction.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822--Fiction.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Fiction.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879--Fiction.
- Clairmont, Claire.
- Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- Polidori, John William, 1795-1821.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Authorship--Fiction.
- Authorship.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Fiction.
- Valets--Fiction.
- Valets.
- Vampires--Fiction.
- Vampires.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, The Merciful Women is a brilliant retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manservant, a talent-less hack resentful of the ease of his master's life. Through a Faustian pact with an unseen intercessant, Polidori obtains the most compelling vampire story ever written. But "The Vampyre" has striking similarities to Polidori's benefactor and to what she asks of him in return. Opium, erotica, and decadence meld into a sly and stylish novel about literary ambition, talent, and inspiration.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0802138268
- 9780802138262
- OCLC:
- 52361072
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