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What happens when you combine the screenwriter of the critically-acclaimed film Gladiator,
the famously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, and two passionate
extra-marital love affairs?
The result, I’m happy to say, is the novel Amherst by William Nicholson (Simon & Schuster, on sale 2/10/2014), which Booklist favorably cast as “deftly explor[ing] the timeless torments of love and loneliness.”
Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive, has dreams of Hollywood, and decides to spend two weeks researching the topic of her screenplay: the scandalous love affair between a young faculty wife at Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college treasurer, Austin Dickinson, the little known brother of Emily Dickinson. Arriving in Amherst, Massachusetts, Alice stays in the house of Nick Crocker, a married man of fifty and, she later learns, a legendary seducer of young women.
Thus, while researching the love affair between Mabel and Austin, Alice falls helplessly for Nick, and the two embark on an affair of their own. An affair, of course, that oddly echoes the story she’s come to Amherst to fully understand.
Amherst is the perfect blend of literary and commercial fiction. Readers will be drawn to the inter-weaving stories of Alice, Nick, Mabel, and Austin—and can feast on the delightful, albeit little known, details of writer Emily Dickinson’s reclusive life.
The result, I’m happy to say, is the novel Amherst by William Nicholson (Simon & Schuster, on sale 2/10/2014), which Booklist favorably cast as “deftly explor[ing] the timeless torments of love and loneliness.”
Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive, has dreams of Hollywood, and decides to spend two weeks researching the topic of her screenplay: the scandalous love affair between a young faculty wife at Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college treasurer, Austin Dickinson, the little known brother of Emily Dickinson. Arriving in Amherst, Massachusetts, Alice stays in the house of Nick Crocker, a married man of fifty and, she later learns, a legendary seducer of young women.
Thus, while researching the love affair between Mabel and Austin, Alice falls helplessly for Nick, and the two embark on an affair of their own. An affair, of course, that oddly echoes the story she’s come to Amherst to fully understand.
Amherst is the perfect blend of literary and commercial fiction. Readers will be drawn to the inter-weaving stories of Alice, Nick, Mabel, and Austin—and can feast on the delightful, albeit little known, details of writer Emily Dickinson’s reclusive life.
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I read the author's book Motherland and really enjoyed it! Excited for this one too. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThis one does look good! SOmething about me and house covers lately...
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, thanks for hosting this giveaway. I'll add it to my blog's sidebar.
ReplyDeleteAMHERST sounds really interesting. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting the giveaway! I just entered but this book is definitely on my TBR. I love the whole idea of a historical and literary mystery.
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