Palmerino
β Scribed by Melissa Pritchard
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press
- Leaves
- 192
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Welcome to Villa il Palmerino, the British enclave in rural Italy where Violet Paget, known to the world by her pen name and male persona, Vernon Lee, held court. In imagining the real life of this brilliant, lesbian polymath known for her chilling supernatural stories, Melissa Pritchard creates a multilayered tale in which the dead writer inhabits the heart and mind of her lonely, modern-day biographer.
Positing the art of biography as an act of resurrection and possession, this novel brings to life a vividly detailed, subtly erotic tale about secret loves and the fascinating artists and intellectualsβOscar Wilde, John Singer Sargent, Henry James, Robert Browning, Bernard Berensonβwho challenged and inspired each other during an age of repression.
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