Zoe’s Book by Gail Pass

Zoe’s Book

A Novel

Gail Pass

An astonished young woman is plucked from her studies at England’s British Museum and brought to a bizarre household where she meets the ancient, crippled Zoe Mohr. The young woman listens incredulously to Zoe’s claim of association in her youth with Virginie Woolf and the women and men of Bloomsbury, and the contention that an unrecognized literary genius, Julia Carroll, existed within that group.

Zoe’s story is so vivid, so convincingly recounted, that the young woman is drawn back to the household again and again, becoming ever more enthralled as she relives with Zoe her encounters with the luminaries of Bloomsbury, as well as Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Radclyffe Hall. She sees and feels every erotic detail of Zoe’s tumultuous love for the gifted but unstable Julia Carroll, a love which is brought to the brink of destruction by Julia’s relationship with a formidable rival – Virginia Woolf herself.

But as Zoe reveals further intricacies and interrelationships among that Bloomsbury group, she withholds one final, stunning secret – a secret shattering in its implications.

This unique and compelling story, told with unfailing grace and intelligence, portrays as never before the legendary women of Bloomsbury.

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Details

ISBN	395243505
Genre	Fiction; Grier Rated
Copyright Date	1976
Publication Date	1976
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	212
Language	English
Rating	Great
BookID	15116