The Mistress of Nothing (Paperback)
| Author: Kate Pullinger |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Renouf Pub Co Ltd
ISBN-10: 1552787982
ISBN-13: 9781552787984
Sku: 212703781
Publish Date: 10/22/2009
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Kate Pullinger takes a footnote from literary history as the launch pad for her novel MISTRESS OF NOTHING. Suffering from tuberculosis, author Lady Lucie Duff Gordon heads to Egypt with her devoted maid, Sally Naldrett, and an interpreter, Omar Abu Halaweh. This scenario and these individuals Pullinger pulls from real life, but she teases out with her vivid imagination the intimate and intricate account of their interwoven interpersonal lives--including the child born of an affair between Sally and Omar.Kate Pullinger takes a footnote from literary history as the launch pad for her novel MISTRESS OF NOTHING. Suffering from tuberculosis, author Lady Lucie Duff Gordon heads to Egypt with her devoted maid, Sally Naldrett, and an interpreter, Omar Abu Halaweh. This scenario and these individuals Pullinger pulls from real life, but she teases out with her vivid imagination the intimate and intricate account of their interwoven interpersonal lives--including the child born of an affair between Sally and Omar.
Kate Pullinger takes a footnote from literary history as the launch pad for her novel MISTRESS OF NOTHING. Suffering from tuberculosis, author Lady Lucie Duff Gordon heads to Egypt with her devoted maid, Sally Naldrett, and an interpreter, Omar Abu Halaweh. This scenario and these individuals Pullinger pulls from real life, but she teases out with her vivid imagination the intimate and intricate account of their interwoven interpersonal lives--including the child born of an affair between Sally and Omar.Kate Pullinger takes a footnote from literary history as the launch pad for her novel MISTRESS OF NOTHING. Suffering from tuberculosis, author Lady Lucie Duff Gordon heads to Egypt with her devoted maid, Sally Naldrett, and an interpreter, Omar Abu Halaweh. This scenario and these individuals Pullinger pulls from real life, but she teases out with her vivid imagination the intimate and intricate account of their interwoven interpersonal lives--including the child born of an affair between Sally and Omar.
Praise
"[T]antalizing....Pullinger has done her research, and the customs and politics of the period...all make it into the novel."
- Lisa Fugard
01/23/2011
"[T]antalizing....Pullinger has done her research, and the customs and politics of the period...all make it into the novel."
- Lisa Fugard
01/23/2011
