The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy - ISBN: 9781635901597
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Dracula’s Mina lives again, independent and intimate in 1980s San Francisco.

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    2 November 2021

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Summary

Bellamy’s debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.

“Hypocrisy’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 he…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781635901597
ISBN-10:1635901596
Author:Dodie Bellamy, Christopher Emdin
Publisher:Semiotext (E)
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:2 November 2021
Weight:410g
Dimensions:26mm x 228mm x 154mm
Series:Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Dodie Bellamy writes a brilliant gossip and if there’s anything better than literature this is it. Writing that’s pageless, so insinuating, above and below board, luscious deeply fucked up extravagant work. It looks good from here.–Eileen Myles


Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker gets rid of the question of fact versus fiction, while also being ravishing, not to mention totally aloof and needy at the same time.–The Village Voice


The Letters of Mina Harker unfurls like a red velvet carpet wilkomming you to a house of horrors. And the more you succumb, the more that red carpet begins to resemble a thick wet tongue, slicking you up for the ride down the hot narrow throat of postmodern narrative.–Traci Vogel, San Francisco Bay Guardian

About The Author

Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality, politics and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay and poetry. In 2018-2019 she was the subject of On Our Mind, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays and reading-group meetings organized by CCA Wattis ICA. Her 2015 essay collection When the Sick Rule the World will be followed in 2021 by Bee Reaved, a new essay collection circling around grief, loss and abandonment. With Kevin Killian, she co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much- New Narrative 1977-1997. A compendium of essays on Bellamy’s work, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind, was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA/Semiotext(e).

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