The Dream Lover: A Novel

The Dream Lover: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sandâ€”which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert.
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At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her familyâ€™s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new nameâ€”George Sandâ€”and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle.
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Paris in the nineteenth century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman who defied the confines of society. Sandâ€™s many lovers and friends include FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, EugÃ¨ne Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, and Alfred de Musset. As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. Though considered the most gifted genius of her time, she works to reconcile the pain of her childhood, of disturbing relationships with her mother and daughter, and of her intimacies with women and men. Will the life she longs for always be just out of reachâ€”a dream?
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Brilliantly written in luminous prose, and with remarkable insights into the heart and mind of a literary force, The Dream Lover tells the unforgettable story of a courageous, irresistible woman.
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Advance praise for The Dream Lover
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â€œIn her masterly new novel, Elizabeth Berg inhabits the adventurous heart of George Sand, making sense of a puzzling legend who dared to live and write against the grain.â€â€”Nancy Horan
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â€œThe Dream Loverâ€”what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.â€â€”Frances Mayes
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â€œWhat a rich, heartbreaking, triumphant novel Elizabeth Berg has written! I recommend reading it with a highlighter in hand to mark the insights about love and life and being a woman that are on every page so you can reread and savor them.â€â€”Ann Hood
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â€œThe Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. â€˜A life not lived in truth,â€™ Berg writes, â€˜is a life forfeited.â€™ In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.â€â€”Leah Hager Cohen
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â€œThe Dream Lover is the dream match of writer to subject, Elizabeth Berg animating George Sand so vividly that you feel the Frenchwoman speaking directly to you. Infamous for her eccentricities and her passions, Sand is shown to be a touching figure, a woman needing to love and be loved.â€â€”Robin Black
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0812993152_used
ReleaseDate 2015-04-14
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780812993158

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0812993152_used
ReleaseDate	2015-04-14
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780812993158

The Dream Lover: A Novel

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