Becoming George Sand
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780547370545 (0547370547)
ASIN: 547370547
Publish date: March 17th 2011
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Unfinished -- lovely, poetic language but a wholly unappealing heroine. I don't mind novels about love, marriage, and desire -- and even the desire to escape one's life for another passion -- but Maria was so unappealing (white upper class academic too comfortable with husband to leave him, but aff...
"Becoming George Sand" is the story of Dr. Maria Jameson, a Scottish university professor, who is writing a book about the life of French author George Sand (nee Aurore Dupin). Her marriage is falling apart, due in no small part to her affair with another professor, and one of her friends is seriou...