Angela Meyer
Autore di A Superior Spectre
Opere di Angela Meyer
Obsolescence - story 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Lifted Brow #6 — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
publisher
literary reviewer
bookseller - Organizzazioni
- Echo Publishing
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 72
- Popolarità
- #243,043
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 19
Jeff is dying. He flees from his home in Australia to the north of Scotland so that he can die alone, haunted by the secrets of his past. He takes with him an experimental technology that allows him to inhabit the mind of another person, in another time. While he has been warned not to overuse it, it is a temptation that he struggles to resist.
Leonora is a young woman living in the Highlands in 1860. Living alone with her widowed father on a small farm, Leonora likes nothing more than the company of animals. However, her father remarries and sends her to Edinburgh to live with her aunt and prepare herself for the seemingly inevitable marriage.
Leonora starts to sense intrusions into her mind, seeing visions and hearing unusual music. She suspects that these are some kind of spiritualist experiences and seeks help. She also feels drawn towards some medical students that she encounters at the university, company that her aunt does not approve of.
Meyer touches on issues of gender fluidity, class differences, the dawn of feminism, the exploitation of women, the imminence of death, the abuse of technology and a few other weighty concepts, all in the space of about 350 pages. Her characterisations are excellent. Leonora is easy to feel for, a fairly typical historical romance heroine. Meyer does very well to present the fundamentally flawed person that is Jeff in a light that does not lead to the visceral rejection you might expect. I was surprised at the degree of empathy that I felt for him.
This is a really good debut from an Australian author of great promise.… (altro)