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Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
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by Kit Bakke
Sales Rank: 323043
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$24.95
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Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: David R Godine; 1 edition September 15, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567923119
ISBN-13: 978-1567923117
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
From Booklist
Debut author Bakke's enduring appreciation of Louisa May Alcott inspired a uniquely constructed epistolary bio-memoir in which Bakke and Alcott exchange e-mails across time, many on the subject of how women can maintain a life of purpose while entering middle age. This intriguing and lively imagery correspondence is interleaved with Bakke's historical essays about Alcott's life, which provide a concise biography of the women's-movement pioneer. Bakke also expresses an affinity for Alcott's abolitionist stance, which leads her to gloss over the violent acts of Alcott's great hero, John Brown, just as Alcott did. Bakke also reflects on her own radical past. As a former member of the Weather Underground, Bakke has experience with a revolutionary movement and the controversy it engendered and finds in Alcott a kindred spirit. Alcott fans will enjoy the biographical essays and keen manner in which Bakke assumes Alcott's voice and connects two distant eras. Readers interested in the 1960s protest movement will also find much to consider in Bakke's frank assessments of her own turbulent young adulthood. Colleen Mondor
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Product Review
(An) excellent bookthe effect is like a wonderful movie shot with a hand-held camera. --Washington Post Book World
Customer Reviews & Comments
I read this book in one sitting. It was a non-stop read. What was intriguing to me was the use of the correspondence between the author and Louisa May Alcott which seemed quite legitimate because they share similar backgrounds in different eras. It reminds me of another great book, written 30 years ago, by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, "A Woman of Independent Means" which uses the letter-writing conceit exclusively. Kit Bakke is on to something and I hope she is at work on another book.
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Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
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