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Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Dear Librarian, We're history professors, and one of the things we most love about our work is solving the puzzles of the past by reading very old documents in archives and libraries: newspapers, diaries, court records, even love letters. Our novel, Blindspot, gives readers the chance to be historians, too. Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot interleaves real documents, like clippings from the Boston Gazette, with fictional ones: the memoirs of Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter escaped from debtor's prison; and the letters of Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who disguises herself as a boy to become Jameson's apprentice. A history of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary time, Blindspot's also an affectionate send-up of eighteenth-century fiction, mixing the romping, bawdy, pre-modern sensibility of Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin with the modern passion for the past that inspires readers of A.S. Byatt, E. L. Doctorow, and Jeanette Winterson. We're honored that Library Journal has named Blindspot as an Editor's Pick and in its starred review called the book "a beautifully crafted debut historical novel that is at once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant sociological and political portrait of a turbulent time." For more about Blindspot, visit our website, www.blindspotthenovel.com. Our very best, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Blindspot / Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore / Spiegel & Grau / Hardcover; 512 Pages
Price: $24.95 / ISBN: 978-0385526197 / Published: December, 2008 Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore are two of our featured authors this week. Click here to view their reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |