Still She Haunts Me - by Katie Roiphe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician, used the name Lewis Carroll and wrote two classics that liberated children's literature from Victorian moralism. But the nature of his relationship with his young muse, Alice Liddell, remains mysterious. In imagining what might have happened Roiphe has created a deep, richly textured fictional portrait of Alice and Dodgson.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious. <p/>Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old. Eventually he would capture her in his photographs, and transform the stories he told her into the luminous <b>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass</b>. Then, suddenly, when Alice was eleven, the Liddell family shut him out, and his relationship with Alice ended abruptly. The pages from Dodgson's diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared. <p/>In imagining what might have happened, Katie Roiphe has created a deep, textured portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him. Here, too, is a brilliantly realized cast of characters that surround them: Lorina Liddell, Alice's mother, who loves her daughter even as she envies her youth; Edith Liddell, Alice's resentful little sister; and James Hunt, Dodgson's speech therapist, an island of sanity in Dodgson's increasingly chaotic world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A love story in gothic blues...Its algebraic elegance casts a sweeping light on the surreal and cruel elements of the <i>'Alice'</i> books, allowing us to read, as it were, between the lines."<i>--Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Rich and inspired...[An] ambitious and engaging piece of fiction."<i>--Chicago Tribune</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Katie Roiphe received her Ph.D. from Princeton in English literature. Her articles have appeared in <i>The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper's, </i> and <i>The New Yorker, </i> among many others. Her previous books are <i>The Morning After</i> and <i>Last Night in Paradise</i><b>.</b> She lives in New York City.
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