The Letters of Mina Harker

by Dodie Bellamy

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889097144
• ISBN13: 9781889097145
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Hard Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Undead-- And Back In Print!

Bellamy's employment of language is intoxicating: her sentences swirling around like smoke in a fat-bellied glass pipe, the body of her work crackling with the brilliance of a heretofore unknown substance. This modern-day vampire tale set in San Francisco pounds a stake in the heart of literary conventions--transcending form and sexual orientation--and sends my blood rushing. _The Letters of Mina Harker_ is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary literature.