Orlanda

by Jacqueline Harpman

One afternoon in a Paris train station, as 35-year-old literature professor Aline Berger struggles to re-read Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a novel she has never enjoyed, an odd feeling comes over her when a handsome but strange young man asks her for aspirin. Haunted by the harsh words of her domineering mother, who demanded that she suppress her tomboyish tendencies during her childhood, Aline has become a demure, passive, conventional woman. She fails...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583220119
• ISBN13: 9781583220115
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"