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Apr 14, 2015 · THE DREAM LOVER is enticing and engaging; flashing back and forth from George Sand’s earlier, middle and latter parts of her life— told in first person narrative, pulling you into the struggles, heartbreaks, frustrations, passionate letters, and explorations of Sand’s desires, intelligence, creativity, and talents.
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- Hardcover
- Elizabeth Berg
Mar 22, 2016 · Paris in the nineteenth century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman who defied the confines of society. Sand’s many lovers and friends include Frédéric Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, and Alfred de Musset.
- Elizabeth Berg
- $14.04
- Ballantine Books
“The Dream Lover is the dream match of writer to subject, Elizabeth Berg animating George Sand so vividly that you feel the Frenchwoman speaking directly to you. Infamous for her eccentricities and her passions, Sand is shown to be a touching figure, a woman needing to love and be loved.” —Robin Black
- Elizabeth Berg
- Paperback
“The dream lover” came into my hands as a recommendation from my local library. I had exhausted the relationship and family sagas of Joanna Trollope and Cathy Kelly (English and Irish). Here the highly experienced USA author is writing superbly, if exhaustingly (showing not just telling) about Bohemian Europeans of a giftedness in the Arts ...
Mar 22, 2016 · “The Dream Lover is the dream match of writer to subject, Elizabeth Berg animating George Sand so vividly that you feel the Frenchwoman speaking directly to you. Infamous for her eccentricities and her passions, Sand is shown to be a touching figure, a woman needing to love and be loved.” —Robin Black
- Reprint
- 03/22/2016
- 9780.3B
- Random House Publishing Group
Apr 14, 2015 · Excerpt. “At random moments, I find myself in sudden need of an intense privacy. Then I excuse myself from my own table, from the trilling conversation in the bookshop, from the darkened theater or the street market, with its bins of fish and chard. I stand somewhere alone to calm myself, to draw breaths past the knot in my chest.
Apr 14, 2015 · Brilliantly written in luminous prose, and with remarkable insights into the heart and mind of a literary force, The Dream Lover tells the unforgettable story of a courageous, irresistible woman. Praise for The Dream Lover. “Exquisitely captivating . . . Sand’s story is so timely and modern in an era when gender and sexual roles are upended ...
