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Author:	Edmund White	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Harpercollins	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0060004843	ISBN-13:	9780060004842
Subject:	Literary Collections	Publication Year:	2003
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Language:	English	Condition:	Like New

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Frances Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, was a writer herself--a hack who wrote strictly for money, and whose most famous book was DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, which was not exactly a rave review of the country where she spent four years in the 1830s trying to make her fortune. In this novel, Frances (nicknamed Fanny) is writing a biography of a friend of hers--another Fanny, a wealthy woman with a radical utopian social agenda and a tendency toward affairs with famous men, Lafayette and Jefferson among them. As Fanny T. writes about the increasingly destructive and oblivious Fanny W., her narrative turns more and more inward, until in the end her "biography" becomes the self-revealing story of an original and determined character--herself.
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Series:	WHITE, EDMUND

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Length:	384 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	25.6 oz.

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In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright has convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life. The biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores and digressions on the misadventures of Mrs. Trollope's own family. By turns noble and petty, comic and tragic, it introduces us to literary lions, battling political theorists, gamblers and escaped slaves, and even the aging General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. With hallucinatory realism, Mrs. Trollope paints French châteaux, Belgian fogs, Mississippi mud, and the gaudy splendors and cruelties of Haiti. And throughout this sparkling narrative, we find love in all its forms -- in the family, between races and generations, and within the same sex. Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.
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"A brilliantly structured, wonderfully engaging tragicomedy of historic and panoramic yet human proportions." Kirkus (08/01/2003) "[White's] prose is accomplished and amusing, and the two ladies who are his subjects here clearly inspire him, as does Mrs. Trollope's uncouth America, 'a country founded on tax evasion.' The book is great fun to read...Good historical fiction always echoes the present, and FANNY is no exception: A reader so inclined will find plenty to think about re idealism, egalitarianism, political corruption and blind American self-esteem. But read it for the story, and for the two women named Fanny--excellent company." Washington Post Book World - Alice K. Turner (12/21/2003) "White recreates [this world] with an audacity, wit and stylistic swagger way beyond the capabilities of his matter-of-fact mouthpiece. One feels that, however arduous the research, he must have hugely enjoyed writing his novel. It is certainly hugely enjoyable to read." Literary Review - Francis King (08/01/2003)

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This is a thick hardcover with illustrated dust jacket, tight and clean LIKE NEW. Mild/minor shelfwear...tiny slits on the edge of the dust jacket at the top corner, top spine tip, bottom front corner. Very tiny. Otherwise a nice tight clean book that looks unused.

FANNY.........A FICTION.

by EDMUND WHITE.

ECCO BOOKS. STATED FIRST EDITION, 2003. NUMBER LINE: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 .

NOT PRICE CLIPPED. REMAINDER MARK ON THE UNDERSIDE.

In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet - the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright has convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfyhing sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.

The biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores and digressions on the misadventures of Mrs. Trollope's own family. By turns noble and petty, comic and tragic, it introduces us to literary lions, battling political theorists, gamblers and escaped slaves, and even the aging General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. With hallucinatory realism, Mrs. Trollope paints French chateaux, Belgian fogs, Mississippi mud, and the gaudy splendors and cruelties of Haiti. And throughout this sparkling narrative, we find love in all its forms - in the family, between races and generations, and within the same sex.

FANNY: A FICTION is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White - a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.

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