In Barbara Tomash's brilliant reworking of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, the continuity and causality of the nineteenth-century novel are transformed into the isolate flecks of twenty-first century poetry. In this masterpiece of excision and refashioning, Tomash has uncovered the troubling, luminous strands within the text, and given us a revelatory and radical new experience of her protagonist, Isabel. If the novelist built a world that...
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