The Letters of Mina Harker (Library of American Fiction)
by Dodie Bellamy
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"First published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel The Letters of Mina Harker sought to resuscitate this minor character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizing Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between show more the two women in which the real story occurs in the gaps and the slippages. Lampooning the intellectual theory-speak of that era, Bellamy's narrator fights to inhabit her own sexuality despite feelings of vulnerability and destruction."--Page 4 of cover show lessTags
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I still haven't finished this book and feel like I never will... It's irrepressible, uncontainable and utterly amazing. Warning: do not read it on public transit as you may find yourself blushing (or shocking the old lady sitting next to you)!
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Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, and editor.
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