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Amherst
S. & S. Feb. 2015. 320p. ISBN 9781476740409. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476740423. F
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Nicholson's new novel is about two love affairs that center on the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson. Londoner Alice Dickinson (no relation) is a young advertising executive who takes time off to work on a screenplay. Her topic is the scandalous real-life love affair between Mabel Loomis Todd, a young faculty wife, and the much older Austin Dickinson, Amherst College treasurer and Emily's brother. Alice travels to Amherst, MA, to do research and is invited to stay with Nick Crocker, a married academic from England in his 50s. As Alice looks into Mabel and Austin's relationship, she begins an affair of her own with Nick, which they both know echoes the past.
VERDICT Nicholson is an accomplished novelist (Motherland) and Oscar-nominated screenwriter in whose hands this meticulously researched and thought-provoking exploration of the nature of passionate love soars. Told in alternating chapters between the past and the present and using the poems of Emily Dickinson throughout, this work will appeal to literary readers and those familiar with Nicholson's earlier novels (some characters recur), but it is accessible to all and should be welcomed by book groups. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 8/22/14.]
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