Cassandra At The Wedding
Dorothy Baker
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken–at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother, as she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has.First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.
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‘A very special love story’ ~ Barbara Grier, The Ladder, V.7 N.4, January 1963
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| ISBN | 9781590171127 |
| Genre | Fiction; Vintage |
| Copyright Date | 1962 |
| Publication Date | 01-Jan-01 |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 256 |
| Language | French |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Mothers; Mothers/ Death/ Fiction; Ranch Life/ Fiction; Women Graduate Students; Women Graduate Students/ Fiction |
| BookID | 1827 |
