NEW: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Date of Review:
Feb.09.2009
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Reviewer:
Richard Mandrachio
Source:
The Rumpus
The creation of an historical work of fiction is problematic at best; populating a balanced narrative with well-known personages requires a writer who takes chances. Brenda Webster is such a writer. Her new novel, Vienna Triangle, depicts Sigmund Freud’s fin de siècle Vienna through the lens of 1960s America, two similarly tumultuous periods. Effortlessly, this author interlaces the two eras, along with characterizations and ideologies indigenous to each.
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About Brenda
Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a freelance writer, critic, and translater who splits her time between Berkeley and Rome,...
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Causes Brenda Webster Supports
Doctors Without Borders
The Nature Conservancy
Women Support Women
International PEN
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