Pale shadows / Dominique Fortier ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Toronto : Coach House Books, [2024]Description: 190 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781552454688 (pbk.)
- 1552454681
- Ombres blanches. English
- FIC 23
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Forti (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 24172 |
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FIC Forma Leave me / | FIC Forsy The Fox / | FIC Forti The island of books / | FIC Forti Pale shadows / | FIC Fortu Meet me at the lake / | FIC FOS A very merry Christmas | FIC Foste Fighting Dirty. |
Translation of: Les ombres blanches.
A story of the power of books in our lives and the people behind them. A story of the making of a book, the first collection of Dickinson's poems, and the women who brought her work out of the shadows, navigating the male publishing world with no standing of their own. Grieving the loss of her sister and alone in a big house, Lavinia goes through Emily's things and wonders what to do with her sister's poems. She enlists the help of Susan, Emily's best friend and brother Austin's wife, who rouses herself from a deep depression to put the poems into some order to approach a publisher. Lavinia also brings Austin's mistress, Mabel, into the project for her worldliness and connections. In the wings, there is Millicent, Mabel's daughter, a little girl like Emily in spirit, wise and strong-willed, and fascinated by things big and small in the world around her. Delicate like lacework with dark threads running through it, Pale Shadows picks up the story of Emily Dickinson where Paper Houses left off, to explore the place of women in history, their creativity, and the enduring power of Dickinson's poetry.
Translated from the French.
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