title: Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison
author:  A. S. Byatt 
description: In this collection of conversations, leading British novelist/critic Byatt (Possession, LJ 11/1/90) and Brazilian psychoanalyst Sodre discuss novels by six women writers: Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Cather's The Professor's House, Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Morrison's Beloved. The authors bring particular insight into the development of these works (and especially their effect on readers) and of the novel in general. Though a sameness in the prose makes for smooth reading, one is left wishing that the voices of Byatt and Sodre were more distinctive. The book's most effective part is the final conversation, in which the authors discuss the value of dreams and stories, emphasizing the importance of reading and sharing reading through conversation as a valuable means of learning. For academic literature collections.?Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, N.J.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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