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so i got it because it waseuro and it only said Margaret Ghost, no picture,no author,nothing, i just wanted to be suprised and i was, it's okay,not bad. it's a small book to read and pass your time This was an unusual and somewhat intriguing little novel, I mean "little" literally: it was a small book and not much longer than a novella,

The book blurb is somewhat misleading in describing it as a story of intersecting lives, Really, it is the story of a professor undertaking the research she hopes will secure her tenure, incorporating detailed notes and musings on her subject, Margaret Fuller, There's enough information on Fuller to constitute a short biography, but it is presented in such a scattered way, I'm not sure how coherent it would be to someone not already familiar with her life.
Having done some study on Fuller myself, I found the author's views on her interesting,

I'm not sure what to make of the framing story, When not engaged in research, the main character, Angelica, gets involved in a onesided affair with a misogynistic Harvard professor

who routinely denigrates her and her work, She flirts with but never commits to a hookup with a lesbian colleague who is so dreadfully predatory, I can only hope she was meant to be ironic, There's some mildly amusing academic satire, but ultimately the romantic shenanigans degenerate into farce,

Why did I rate thisThe writing is good in places and the structure was interesting, At least it was a quick read and a not unfair representation of Margaret Fuller, Boring. This fascinating novel by Barbara Novak blends painstaking scholarship and compelling fiction writing as it follows the lives of two women, one the subject of the other's research, Tenuretrack professor Angelica Bookbinder is researching a book on the woman Henry James called "the MargaretGhost": the brilliant, New England feminist Margaret Fuller, who was a friend and contemporary to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Horace Greeley, among other nineteenthcentury notable figures.
Fascinated by Fuller's personal life as much as by her brilliance, Angelica focuses her research on the role that love played in Fuller's life, examining both her heterosexual and homosexual liaisons, while trying to understand her lifelong struggle to balance her intellectual strengths with her emotional needs.
Driven by the belief that Fuller's life was dominated by a frustrated quest for love, Angelica passionately pursues her research, all the while aware that in doing so, she is straying from the academic straight and narrow.
At the same time, Angelica finds her own romantic dilemmas beginning to echo Fuller's, Moving between nineteenth and twentiethcentury Boston, Angelica follows her research with an almost carnal obsession, bouncing between the advances of a female colleague and a burgeoning relationship with a fellow tenuretrack professor.
Her new lover, a Harvard scholar studying Herman Melville, appreciates Angelica's intellectwhen it does not challenge hisbut seems to prefer the body of someone Angelica contemptuously calls "the Baywatch girl.
" Juxtaposing nineteenthcentury high culture and contemporary pop references with oftenhilarious results, Novak probes the nature of malefemale relationships, questioning if certain patterns transcend time, Satirical, erudite, and beautifully written, The MargaretGhost investigates relationships, academia, love, and research, creating a captivating parallel across generations between the passionate Margaret Fuller and her equally passionate researcher.
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