{"product_id":"the-letters-of-mina-harker-9781635901597","title":"The Letters of Mina Harker","description":"\u003cb\u003eBellamy's debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHypocrisy's not the problem, I think, it's allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into--how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she's physical and I'm only psychic. ... The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down her back, drove a Karmann Ghia, drank Chianti in dark corners, fucked Gregroy Corso ...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Dodie Bellamy, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e sought to resuscitate the central female character from Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizing Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between the two women in which the real story occurs in the gaps and the slippages. Lampooning the intellectual theory-speak of that era, Bellamy's narrator fights to inhabit her own sexuality despite feelings of vulnerability and destruction. Stylish but ruthlessly unpretentious, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e was Bellamy's first major claim to the literary space she would come to inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635901597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Dodie Bellamy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41072024813749,"sku":"9781635901597","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ba31da6c-7ff4-4cec-9aea-13417647f27d.jpg?v=1632234164","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-letters-of-mina-harker-9781635901597","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}