In the almost four decades since her suicide, Sylvia Plath has been idolized almost as much for her role as the deceived wife of Ted Hughes as for her poetic works. The couple's erotically charged meeting, initially idyllic marriage and later...
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Emma Tennant, Author . Holt $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6897-9
Tennant, a London-based author (Sylvia and Ted), offers a delightful memoir of the years she spent visiting her parents' home on the Greek island of Corfu. During a vacation, Tennant's parents, then in late middle-age, became captivated by a
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Emma Tennant, Author . Morrow $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-000454-5
Seasoned sequel-writer Tennant (Pemberley; Sylvia and Ted; etc.) offers not so much a follow-up to Jane Eyre
as a new perspective on its plot. She retells Brontë's romance from the perspective of the pampered but neglected Adèle,...
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Emma Tennant, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1530-5
This memoir, spanning three generations of Tennant's wealthy family, describes the intrigues, jealousies, competitions and frustrations of the author's ancestry, using portrait photos at the beginning of each chapter as narrative springboards. The...
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Emma Tennant, Author Faber & Faber $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-14330-6
Tennant ( The Adventures of Robina by Herself ) here cleverly reworks the classic tale, giving it a contemporary setting and a decidedly feminist twist. The construction itself is unusual--more like a play, complete with a ``cast list'' and a...
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Emma Tennant, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-312-11533-3
In her second engaging sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Tennant (Pemberley) enmeshes beautiful Elizabeth Bennet Darcy in a nicely snarled web of predicaments. Elizabeth and Darcy, still blissful after 19 wedded years, have a winsome daughter, Miranda,
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Emma Tennant. Peter Owen (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (180p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1481-7
This unusual ghost tale is set in present-day Rye, England, where Henry James wrote his late masterpieces. The primary narrator, English professor and James scholar Jan Sunderland, visits Rye over the holidays to discuss a media venture, which he, a
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Emma Tennant, Author, Emma Tenant, Author Faber & Faber $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-14183-8
Tennant (Two Women of London) creates a mystical sense of impending doom in both these novellas. But her dense imagery has only the faintest grasp on reality-and ultimately it becomes a veritable thicket blocking the light of comprehension. In Woman
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Emma Tennant, Author, Jane Austen, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-10793-2
Although it's more thoughtfully conceived than Julia Barrett's Presumption (reviewed below), Tennant's ( The Adventures of Robina ) continuation of the Austen classic only faintly rewards the reader. Unlike Barrett, Tennant makes a strong case for...
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