The Letters of Mina Harker
$39.65
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2021
Summary
Bellamy’s debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.
“Hypocrisy’s not the problem, I think, it’s allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into–how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she’s physical and I’m ‘only psychic.’ … The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901597 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901596 |
| Author: | Dodie Bellamy, Christopher Emdin |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 154mm x 228mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
Dodie Bellamy writes a brilliant gossip and if there’s anything better than literature this is it. Writing that’s pageless, so insinuating, above and below board, luscious deeply fucked up extravagant work. It looks good from here.–Eileen Myles
Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker gets rid of the question of fact versus fiction, while also being ravishing, not to mention totally aloof and needy at the same time.–The Village Voice
The Letters of Mina Harker unfurls like a red velvet carpet wilkomming you to a house of horrors. And the more you succumb, the more that red carpet begins to resemble a thick wet tongue, slicking you up for the ride down the hot narrow throat of postmodern narrative.–Traci Vogel, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay, and poetry. In 2018-2019, she was the subject of On Our Mind, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays, and reading-group meetings organized by CCA Wattis ICA. Her 2015 essay collection When the Sick Rule the World will be followed in 2021 by Bee Reaved, a new essay collection circling around grief, loss, and abandonment. With Kevin Killian, she co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997. A compendium of essays on Bellamy’s work, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind, was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA/Semiotext(e).
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