{"product_id":"letters-of-mina-harker-book-dodie-bellamy-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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e First 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743118008593,"sku":"NGR9781635901597","price":14.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50407995801873,"sku":"GOR012880659","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51720723824913,"sku":"CIN1635901596G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1635901596.jpg?v=1751433090","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/letters-of-mina-harker-book-dodie-bellamy-9781635901597","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}