The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780812993158 (0812993152)
ASIN: 812993152
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
A special thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.The reviews for this book are all over the map, and my opinion is much of the same. Some of it I really liked, while other parts I skimmed through. Berg writes in first person, alternating between Sand's childhood, and almo...
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, wrote under the pseudonym George Sand. From this book I learned that her identity as a female was broadly known. She dressed as a man to exercise her creative approach to life. The times placed constraints on her personality which were confining to her free spirit. From...
I probably shouldn’t have read this novel as I was listening to Nancy Horan’s novel, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, but in truth, they were a good pair to read together. They covered a similar period of time, were set mainly in Europe, and showed the great disparity in the lives of a successful male...
May 2015: Am going to just DNF this and move on. Am at about 73% and while I'm liking it a smidgen more, I'm just exhausted by the encyclopedic focus on Sand's life (to the detriment of the story, I feel), and the dual story lines (I do not see a difference in young Sand and older Sand, and it just ...
Aurore Dupin was born into a tumultuous family in early 19th century France. As an adult, she left her husband, moved to Paris, dressed in men’s clothing and made her dream of having a career in writing come true, under the name of George Sand. She lived a scandalous life for the time; left a numb...
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