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University Book Store Presents Dinitia Smith in conversation with Brooke Allen
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About the book: Money. Power. Sex. Family. These conflicts propel the world’s greatest novels. They seared the pages of "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James when it was published in 1904, and they inflame Dinitia Smith’s retelling, "The Prince", creating a modern classic with twists and turns that even James couldn’t imagine.
Smith, a multiple award-winning former New York Times reporter, uses the modern equivalent of the glittering high society setting of the Golden Age to tell the story of a father and daughter and the prince who comes between them. Set partially on Woodford Island, based on Gardiners Island off the coast of East Hampton, NY, "The Prince" reconstructs the claustrophobic tension of the original while exploring the four central relationships with a fresh, modern gaze.
Entangled in a complex web strung between love, duty and desire are Emily the happy, fresh-faced and rather clueless daughter of enormous wealth, and her worldlier friend, Christina, who has gotten ahead on her sense of style and stunning beauty.
Emily is about to wed the charming, affable and nearly destitute Italian Prince Frederico who spends his feckless days amusing himself with music and soccer, but unknown to Emily, hides a potentially devastating secret.
At the wedding, Emily’s father, Henry Woodford, is drawn to the elegant Christina and soon after proposes marriage. But his primary relationship is with his daughter, and as his bride is left to her own devices, the interplay of the characters is set into chaotic motion culminating in an ending that fans of Henry James would appreciate—but never see coming.
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Brooke Allen is a writer and critic who has contributed to numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Nation, and Commentary. She is the author of several books, including "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" and two collections of literary criticism. She taught Literature at Bennington College and continues to teach in the Bennington Prison Education Initiative.
About the book: Money. Power. Sex. Family. These conflicts propel the world’s greatest novels. They seared the pages of "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James when it was published in 1904, and they inflame Dinitia Smith’s retelling, "The Prince", creating a modern classic with twists and turns that even James couldn’t imagine.
Smith, a multiple award-winning former New York Times reporter, uses the modern equivalent of the glittering high society setting of the Golden Age to tell the story of a father and daughter and the prince who comes between them. Set partially on Woodford Island, based on Gardiners Island off the coast of East Hampton, NY, "The Prince" reconstructs the claustrophobic tension of the original while exploring the four central relationships with a fresh, modern gaze.
Entangled in a complex web strung between love, duty and desire are Emily the happy, fresh-faced and rather clueless daughter of enormous wealth, and her worldlier friend, Christina, who has gotten ahead on her sense of style and stunning beauty.
Emily is about to wed the charming, affable and nearly destitute Italian Prince Frederico who spends his feckless days amusing himself with music and soccer, but unknown to Emily, hides a potentially devastating secret.
At the wedding, Emily’s father, Henry Woodford, is drawn to the elegant Christina and soon after proposes marriage. But his primary relationship is with his daughter, and as his bride is left to her own devices, the interplay of the characters is set into chaotic motion culminating in an ending that fans of Henry James would appreciate—but never see coming.
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Brooke Allen is a writer and critic who has contributed to numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Nation, and Commentary. She is the author of several books, including "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" and two collections of literary criticism. She taught Literature at Bennington College and continues to teach in the Bennington Prison Education Initiative.
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