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A.N. Wilson |
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Family & Relationships · |
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Los Angeles Times: "...a rich confection of atmosphere and action, full of detail -- cultural, political and sexual -- and much fancy." |
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Format: Hardcover, 363
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (November 11, 2008)
Measurements: 9.25"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780374290962 |
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Novelist and biographer A.N. Wilson re-imagines the relationship of Adolf Hitler (referred to here as "Wolf") and his devoted admirer Winifred "Winnie" Wagner, composer Richard Wagner's ravishing and strong-willed daughter-in-law. Indeed, Wilson goes so far as to imagine an affair between the two that produced a secret daughter, also named Winifred, now living in Seattle during the 1960s. The novel emerges as a series of letters from Winifred's adoptive father, a servant in the Wagner household, as he confesses the ghastly nature of Winnie's true parents, describes their powerfully seductive personalities, and hints at the underlying atrocity of their "refined" love for each other. Though Wilson's knowledge of history is vast, and his tweaking of reality cleverly done, this is finally a love story of two charming would-be-artists, and it is the narrator's--and perhaps the reader's--sympathy towards Winnie and Wolf that makes Wilson's book such an intentionally disturbing project: can we, should we, humanize |
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