{"product_id":"a-sunless-heart-broadview-editions-9781551117416","title":"A Sunless Heart (Broadview Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn A Sunless Heart  Edith Johnstone establishes a feverish atmosphere for her novels story of emotional and physical hardship and the power of bonds between women. Its first third focuses on Gasparine ONeill  who shares an intense connection with her sickly twin brother  Gaspar. Living in poverty  the two struggle to live decently until Gaspar dies. Here gritty naturalism gives way to fantasy  as Gasparine is rescued from despair by the brilliant Lotus Grace  a much-admired teacher at the local Ladies College. Sexually exploited from the age of twelve by her sisters fianc  Lotus cannot love anyone  not even her illegitimate child. Gasparine devotes herself to Lotus  but Lotus finds her final brief happiness with a woman student  Mona Lefcadio  a passionate Trinidadian heiress. Exploring issues of race  sexuality  and class in compelling prose  A Sunless Heart is a startling re-discovery from the late-Victorian era. The appendices to this Broadview edition provide contemporary documents that illuminate the tension between romantic friendship and lesbian consciousness in the novel and address other debates in which the novel participates: the nature of Creole identity  the education of women  and the dangers of childhood sexual exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67950656421941,"sku":"ByrdShop_155111741X","price":34.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781551117416.jpg?v=1794423940","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-sunless-heart-broadview-editions-9781551117416","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}