The Letters of Mina Harker av Dodie Bellamy, Christopher Emdin

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<b>Bellamy''s debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker''s <i>Dracula</i> and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.</b><br><br><i>Hypocrisy''s not the problem, I think, it''s allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into--how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she''s physical and I''m "only psychic." ... The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down her back, drove a Karmann Ghia, drank Chianti in dark corners, fucked Gregroy Corso ...</i><br>--Dodie Bellamy, <i>The Letters of Mina Harker</i><br><br>First published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy''s debut novel <i>The Letters of Mina Harker</i> sought to resuscitate the central female character from Bram Stoker''s <i>Dracula</i> and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate d